So young that I can’t recall. My maternal grand parents were practical and frugal, and that set the approach towards clothing. Don’t get your clothes dirty. “If you’re going to play in the mud, take your clothes off.”
As a kid, I had a vitamin D deficiency, and there were two alternatives, cod liver oil (yuk) and more sunshine. Since sunshine was free and my parents didn’t have to drive me to take it, playing bare was the remedy.
Being raised in the rural Lower Mainland of BC, most of it was rural then, researching (hiking) with your playmates (boys and girls) was the common action (no sports fields), if you got too warm, you went skinny dipping in the next creek, no huge deal.
As a youngster I did not have a bathing suit or a tuxedo. “Why buy something that you’ll hardly ever use?” Going to the beach proved to be a special occasion, possibly twice a year, and when we did, it absolutely was to one end of the seashore. Mom had a bathing suit (the only one in the family). Father went in the water in his knickers.
Granny brought a second house dress to wear in http://picsnudism.com . Grandpa, my brother and myself went in the water nude but dressed on the beach.
Would you think that my family was really religious at this time? They were, but “small apparel” meant don’t flaunt your wealth, not hide what God created, your body. When I was a teenager/young adult there were lots of areas in the Lower Mainland that we’d go to and party and skinny dip, but many of them have become regional parks now. My first wife didn’t have a problem with nudity, http://picsnudism.net and anywhere. I was overly conservative.
When I was dating my second wife, Germaine, I in invited her to Wreck Beach. The response was “I’ll go, but I am wearing a bathing suit.” While chasing one of my sons, she fell from her top, and away it arrived. About 10 minutes later, “What the hell.” and off came the remainder. The subsequent year the climb/hike became a problem for Germaine, so we looked for a nudist club. We found and joined the previous Sunny Trails Club in Surrey, and have been part of ordered nudism ever since.
We are likely not authentic Nudists/ Naturists because we truly believe that nakedness is natural and not sexual. They truly do not, or there will not be so many rules to demonstrate that it isn’t. Do not do this or that, or don’t wear this or that, because it might seem to be sexual. More on this at an other time.