Figure 1.--Here we see a group of German children, we think in the 1950s. We would guess that two diffrnt families ar involved. Note that both a boy and a girl are wearing rompers. Suspender or bon-front rompers were especially popular in Germany. |
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We have not yet found images of German children, either boys or girls, wearing rompers before World War I (1914-18). Wecan not yet say that they did not exist, but e are fairly confident that they were not very common. We are not yet sure when they first appeared, but we first see them in the 1920s. This suggests that German children may have been wearing rompers in the 1920s at about the same time Fench boysbeagn to wear the. Rompers in Germany were never as gender specific, however, as in France. Our information on rompers in Germany during the 1920s, however, is still quite limited. Here we see a girl wearing a romper suit (1927). We do not note where in Germany this little girl lived, but it was likely Bavaria where we have noted a French fashion influence. Rompers seem popular for younger children during the 1930s. School age girls commonly wore them for gym abd sports activities. We note German children wearing romprs into the 1950s. We are not yet sure about the 1960s.
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