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It all began with shoes, I suppose. The rule I knew from early on was ‘no shoes in the house.’ After school and on the weekends was always barefoot. What puzzled me was why I had to wear shoes to school when at least half my Kindergarten classmates came to school barefoot. That’s what I was confused about. I didn’t like shoes, they were never on at home, but I had to wear them to my small Catholic primary school in Kempsey, on the north coast of New South Wales. Before Grade 1 we moved to Sydney.
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Dufficy, P. (2015). My Own Skin. In: Gibson, R. (eds) The Memory of Clothes. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-953-1_13
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