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We note quite a number of younger children wearing rompers in the 1910s-20s. This may have begun in the late 1900s, but we do not have any dated images from the 1900s. As children at this age look so similar, it is very difficut to tell if the children are boys or girls. It looks to us as if boys and girls were wearing them in the 1910s, but this is very difficult to tell. If anything they seem more popular for boys than girls. Thus it is very difficult building a chronology of girls wearing rompers. One popular related style was the bloomer gymsuits for older highschool girls. These evolved into one-piece romper gym suits that were widely worn by American highschool girls for gym through the 1950s instead of the short pants gym suits that boys wore. We notice little girls wearing rompers in the early 1930s, but they appear to have been less common for boys. Rompers by the 1940s appeared to have evolved into a casual style for girls clothing. Even teenagers might wear them. Much later romper suits appeared exclusively for girls. I'm not sure when this began, but I remember seeing these suits in the 1950s. It presumably occurred after romper-like bloomer suits became a standard type of girls' gym uniform.
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