Figure 1.--Here we have Simplity pattern for younger children's play suits. There ae two styles for the girls, one a bib front, the other with a sleeveless bodice. Notice the girls' play suits are romper suits with bloomer bottoms. The boy in contrast wears bib-front short pants. We no longrer see merican boys wearing romper bottom play suits. The pattern is undated, but looks like the 1950s to us.

We see play suits for pre-school boys, but theu were done with short or long pants, commonly on a seasonal bais, and no longer with romper puffed bloomer pants. The romper pants we see were almost all for girls. This is very clear in the mail order catlogs wand sewing patterns with illustrations for the vaious garments. The catalogs are a little more useful as they are usually precisely dated, while the sewing patterns are not. Play suits for the younger childkren were often grouped together with illustrations for the boys and girls. Bloomer pants rompers are clerly a style for girls (figure 1). The boys plaus suits are done as short pants, often bib-front or by the end of the decade, shortall styles for the younger boys.

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