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Huge changes were occuruing in Italy during the 1960s. The most importaht was the increasing prosperity, especially in southern Italy. The German Economic Miracle helped vitalize the Italian economy as well. Italians working in Germany and European integration transformed Italy. Living standards improved notably. And this shows up in both housing and clothing as well as increasing number of Italians with cars. Children are increasingly well dressed. Italian boys still commonly wore short pants, but as in the rest of Europe we see more boys wearing long pants, especially by the end of the decade. Short pants suits are becoming less common. The divide between north and south still existed, but not nearly as pronounced as was the case before World War II. We see some children dressed identically. Sandals were widely worn.
This photo was tajen in the early-1960s in a village near Naples. We see Filippo, Beatrice and Pasquale Pisacane with their mother and the newest addition to the family--their sister Maria. We are not sure where father is. This photo was taken in the summer. Mother liked to dress the boys identically. Both boys wear the same outfits: short pants and striped t-shirts. The elder boy wears shoes with white ankle socks and his younger brother sandals without socks.
Here we see a charming family portrai of a mother with her three sons. It was taken in Maione (south-western Italy) probably in the early 1960s. Notice hom mother is holding on tgo the boys with her hands. That tell you a great deal anout the relationship. We note some differences in the clothing of the boys. The elder one is wearing a long trousers suit. A few years earlier in the 1950s, he probably would have been wearing a short pants suit. To wear long trousers was a sort of rite of passage at the time. Both the younger brothers wear short pants with shirts and sandals. The older of them is wearing sandals with socks, that looked more formal at the time. This convention has changed in Italy. Although you can still see some little child wearing sandals with socks, the convention is that open-toe sandals must be worn with bare feet both for casual and formal clothing.
Dawn Adams was a popular British movie and TV actress (1950-70s). She was a major Bitish star, but never made it big in Hollywood and is virtually unknown to American audiences. She made a brief appearance on early american TV. Here she is with her husband, Don Vittorio Emanuele Massimo, Prince of Roccasecca. This means that that the family was Anglo-Italian. Interestingly the Massimo family is one of the oldest nobel familys in Europe. They married (1954). Their son was Prince Stefano Massimo (1955--) who we see here. He would have been 7-8 years old. We are not sure if he was raised in England or Italy. Adams is seated with her husband. Stefano looks to be wearing a school uniform with some kind of party hat. It may be just a blazer and short pants with knee socks. We are not sure if they are in England or Italy.
Here we see an unidentified mother and son seat in front of their house in San Pietro a Patierno (Naples) during the 1960s. Often poor families lived in one-room houses and during the summertime, especially on hot days, many activities took place in the street. Poverty was, however, taking on a different meaning by the 1960s. Both mother and son are better dressed than would hve been the case before the War.
Large families were till common place in Italy during the 1960s, especially in the south and the islands. This Italian family snapshot was taken in Capoterra, a village in southern Sardinia during the 1960s (figure 1). The increasing pst-World War II prosperity in southern Italy wa also notable in Sicily and Sardinia.
The photo was taken in San Pietro a Patierno near Naples during the 1960s. We think this is all one family, but it is possible that a neighbor or two joined in. It is a good example about how Italian children dressed in the 1960s. We know nothing about this scene but the name of one of the boys is Cirillo Pirozzi. Even though it was a village, the fact that it was near Naples suggests that it was a good example of contemporary clothing. The photo also shows the difference between "Sunday clothing" and everyday clothing at the time of the Italian economic boom.
Here we see Gina Luigina Lollobrigida (1927- ) and her son Milko Škofič, Jr., we think in 1964. We are not sure if to call this an Italian, Slovenian or Canadian family. Lollobrigida was an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor. She was one of the highest profile European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She became an international sex symbol. She at first chose to only make European films and did not begin to make Hollywood films until the late-50s. As her film career slowed, she established second careers as a photojournalist and sculptress. She achieved a scoop by gaining access to Fidel Castro for an exclusive interview (1970s). Fidel was apparently smitten by her. Lollobrigida just as her film career was becoming established married a Slovenian physician, Milko Škofič (1949). They had one child, Andrea Milko (Milko Škofič, Jr.) (1957). Škofič gave up the practice of medicine to become her manager. They moved to Toronto, Canada (1960).
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