I Wear Short Trousers

There was no compulsion to wear shorts at home but were worn nonetheless as I wanted to. However the reason I wore grey flannel short trousers for meals out etc was that my mother said you can wear long trousers or nicely tailored grey shorts. I just want you to be smart. My choice was to wear grey school shorts as I hated having trousers flapping around my legs.

It depended on the occasion as to what I wore them with. Sometimes polo shirt, other times white shirt tie and blazer. A sort of short trouser suit. My grey flannel shorts were as per the 1970’s very brief. With an inside leg of about one inch. I did get one or two looks wearing them when I was 15-16 but I had athletic tanned legs and my shorts fitted me well and did indeed look very smart.