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Meeting Scottish friends

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Boys also want to be well dressed on Sundays in ordinary families

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Sunday

Early morning discussion about the importance of correct behaviour.

Uniform inspection before church.

Church servoce during mass.

Sunday walk with parents.

After dinner at grandparents.

Seriuos talk with father in the kitchen.

Back to school in the afternoon.

Only one in shorts at the platform.

Train change in the city.

Back at school for the next week.

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Always to have my socks pulled up.

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I liked nothing more on a fine weekend afternoon than to retire to the green to recline with a book, and had been working through the novels of Wilde and E.M.Forster, to whom I felt an instant connection. At the height of midsummer I could not really stay for more than a half hour in case my legs were to become burned. The attire my father insisted I wear came with hazards as well as benefits. Some days I would be fortunate and remain unmolested, either by unwelcome heat or uninvited strangers impeding my quiet progress.

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It's been a busy day.

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I got used to dressing like this on Sundays, until I was eighteen years of age. It was as normal for me as it was my much younger brothers.

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Adrien Sahores for De Fursac‘s Fall Winter 2016.

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“Is this seat taken? Thanks. I saw you here yesterday too. I like your uniform, you do stand out… My name’s Nathan, by the way.”

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I'm only pretending to read. I've seen that you're looking over this way, and I know what you're thinking - "Is that boy really wearing grey shorts and long socks? Isn't he a bit old for them?"

The answer to both questions is yes, but the shorts are part of my uniform. Your third question - I am guessing, is "His legs look unusually smooth… is he made to keep them so by having to shave them?" and again the answer is... Yes, I do.

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I always put the bag down next to me these days. I want the bench, and this time, to myself. A couple of times in the past someone would come along and sit down, they'd pretend to read a book but they'd constantly be looking across at my legs.

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Queen’s Guard's of Household Cavalry (1959) photos by Basil Arthur Scott Clavering and John Charles Parkhurst.

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ab. 1815 Louis-François Aubry - Gentleman in a Blue Coat and a White Waistcoat

(Tansey Miniatures Foundation)

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