Figure 1.-- Here we see an unidentified Argentine boy on a park outing with his fashinably dressed mother we think doing the 1950s. She has also dressed her little boy very fashionably. They seem to be sitting on a Mickey Mouse bench. They have dressed up for their park outing. The boy is even wearing a tie. Note the heavy coat and gloves she is wearing. He looks to be about 5 years old. With the sweater he is wearing, we can't see much about his romper suit.

Rompers were not just a summer warm weather garment in France and other European countries, but we see them most commonly in the summer. We are less sure about Argentina. We suspect the same is true of Argentuna, but we have not yet archived summer images. We think this is just a function of the small number of imges found. We do not have a lot of Argentine images, but several of the ones we have found show the boys wearing gilets (small sweaters) or for the older boys even full sized sweaters. We see this even on chilly days when adults are wearing heavy overcoats. As far as we can tell the Argentine rompers were all made in same light-weight material. We hav not yet found winter rompers, only the summer rompers worn with sweaters. The outfit the boy here is wearing is a good example (figure 1). At least in Buenos Aiares and northern Argentina, the winters are mild. We do not get hard winters as in France and Europe. Because of the sweater we can't tell much about his romper suit. Gven the tie and what looks like a hite suit it may be suspender or even bib-front rompers.

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