So young that I can not recall. My maternal grand-parents were practical and frugal, and that place the approach towards clothes. Don’t get your clothes dirty.
As a young child, I had a vitamin D insufficiency, and there were two options, cod liver oil (yuk) and more sunshine. Since sun was free and my parents did not have to drive me to take it, playing nude was the alternative.
As a kid I didn’t have a bathing suit or a tuxedo. “Why purchase something that you’ll barely ever use?” Visiting the shore proved to be a special occasion, possibly two times per year, and when we did, it absolutely was to one end of the beach. Father went in the water in his panties. Granny brought another house-dress to wear in the water. Grandpa, my brother and myself went in the water nude but dressed on the shore.
Would you believe that my family was very spiritual at this time? They were, but “small apparel” meant do not flaunt your wealth, not conceal what God created, your body. When I was a teenager/young adult there were lots of locations in the Lower Mainland that we would go to and bash and skinny dip, but the majority of them have become regional parks now. My first wife didn’t have a problem with nudity, she’d strip anytime and anywhere. I was overly conservative.
When I was dating my second wife, Germaine, I in encouraged her to Wreck Beach. The response was “I Will go, but I am wearing a bathing suit.” While pursuing one of my sons, she fell out of her top, and away it arrived. About 10 minutes after, “What the hell.” and off came the rest. The following year the climb/hike became a problem for Germaine, so we looked for a nudist club. We located and joined the old Sunny Trails Club in Surrey, and have been part of ordered nudism ever since.
We’re likely not authentic Nudists/ Naturists because we truly believe that nakedness is natural and not sexual. They really do not, or there won’t be sexy moms on beach to prove 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.