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STYLE – I HAS IT

I was at the cutting edge of fashion right from the very start, as you can see.

The photo says it all: ‘Colin in first long trousers.’ I was almost thirteen and the last one in my class to stop going to school in shorts. Most of the other boys had got into long trousers by the time they were ten. I imagine the reason was because shorts were probably two shillings cheaper.

Photographs were a sort of grey-brown colour when I was a little boy. So I’ve added the yellow to my Mac and Souwester to show you just how fashionable I was and highlighted my wonderful Red Leather Gaiters, which had the girls in Savernake Kindergarten falling at my feet.Is it any wonder I grew up colour blind?

Looks can be deceiving. I promise you I was NEVER a hippy. I’m far too cynical. I was simply scruffy.