Figure 1.--This Belgian caninet card shows three very young siblings we would guess are about 1-5 years old. The baby and girlwear white dresses. The boy wears a coordinated jacket with romper pants. I supose you could call it a romper suit, but it is unlike any romper suit we have seen before. Other romper syuirs had blouse tops rather than a jacket like this one. The girl has a doll and the boy a toy gun. It was taken in March 1883. The studio was Nestor Schaffers in Gand/Ghent. The chilkdren wear white soicjs and strap shoes.

HBC has much less information on Belgian rompers than we have on French rompers, including chrnological information. French fashions are very prevalent in Belgium, so we suspect that there is consideable similarity between the twp countries concerning rompers. We have not found many examples of Belgian boys wearing romper suits during the 19th century. While we do not see rompers suits in the 19th century, we need to mention that that our 19th century Belgian archive is still very limited. Thus it is not a good indicator of prevalence. We do note on unidentified Ghent boy wearing romper pants in 1883. We hve no idea how common his was. He has socks rather than longs stockings like an American boy.

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