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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Interviews by Morwenna Ferrier

‘The best thing is the wind whistling around your parts’: the men who wear shorts all year round

Dick Stringer in in shirt, yellow shorts and socks and birkenstocks
Dick Stringer in Whitstable. Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian

‘Punk had just started, and no one wore shorts – except me’

Dick Stringer, 71, artist, Whitstable/Greenwich

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