Modeling in the remodeled space.

Suburban Chicago, April 1962. After my Parents remodeled the Rec Room, Dad took several posed photographs of us enjoying the spruced-up space.

My Dad was an elegant dresser. Clothes hung beautifully on his lean frame—at his heaviest, Dad wore a size 30-inch pant waist. I remember Dad often looking like this, relaxing in his "stay-at-home clothes." He often, of course, wore a wool vest that Mom had knitted for him.