Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on November 13, 2003 at 19:30:12 from 62.252.64.9 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Winter Holiday posted by John on November 13, 2003 at 18:58:49:
In the 1950s I certainly wore shorts, summer and winter, until I was about 13. And as far as I recall so did everybody else.
Indeed I still like to wear them, but not now in winter.
I suspect the English have always liked shorts more than do our American cousins. I read somewhere (and can't find the reference)that the US Navy reservations about the British Pacific Fleet in 1944/45 stemmed not so much from eccentricities like the Fairey Barracuda torpedo bomber as from the fact that everybody from the Admiral down wore shorts in the tropics!