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We have not notice them being worn to any extent by boys in any other country. An exception here is France. We begin to see garments looking like shortalls in the 1930s. We note some family snapshots of boys wearing garments looking like shortalls during the 1930s. An example here is three siblings in 1934 (figure 1). This French shortall had a lower front than was common with American shortalls, looking almost like suspender shorts. Note the pocket, a feature American shortalls did not normally have. We are not sure what the French called them. We have noted a style looking rather like shortalls in a 1941 French sewing fashion magazine. This outfit looks more like American shortalld, although notice their is defined waistline which American shortalls usually did not have. We are not sure just how popular they were in France. They seem more of a fashionable style than worn commonly worn by French boys. Rompers called Barboteuse seem more common for pre-school boys in France.
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