Figure 1.--This little French boy was named Pierre. The snap shot of him with a choupette and wearing a romper suit was taken in 1943. Pierre was born in 1940 so he would be around 3 years old when the photo was taken.

Most French boys wearing rompers in the 1940s had short hair cuts. We see the boys with various cuts, but mostly short styles. Some of the younger boys may not yet have had their hair cut, but mosts did based on the photographic record. Some especially fashion concsious mothers added curls to the hair of their pre-school children. Here the most common fashion was a basically a short hair cut with a big curl on the top. This was called a choupette. This was done by putting the boy to bed with a few rollers in his hair. This was a style for pre-school boys, the same age group that wore rompers.