Figure 1.--This unidentified German boy wears dressy suspender rompers with a plain white shirt. The photogaph dates to the 1950s. Earlier he morelikely would have worn a fabcy blouse. He looks to be anout 3-years old. The footwear is house slippers. German boys commonly wore slippers like this when home.

We also note German boys wearing rompers for dress up occassions as well as play. These dressy rompers might be made in expensive, plushy materials. We see both rompersuits and suspender rompers. The romper suits might have the dressy, decorative touches incorporated as part of the romper. They often had fancy touches such as large or ruffled collars and front smocking. They might be worn with fanbcy collars like the rompersuit the boy here is wearing (figure 1). We also notice suspender rompers. Here the decorative touches were not on the romper pants, but were part of the blouse worn with the rompers. This might include a fabcy Fauntleroy blouse or a plainer garment, more like a basic white shirt. The dressier rompers we have found in France seem much less common in Germany. They do not seem to have been nearly as popular as a dressy garment. We have found a few dressy rompers, but not many in Germany. Here age was a factor, many of the dressy rompers we see were made for younger boys. We mnote both romper suits as well as strap rompers worn with a blouse.

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