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The age at which boys have worn rompers have varied over time thus complicating our assessment here. A French reader tells us that rompers were typical for boys 6 months to 6 years from the mid 1930s through the mid 1950s. Catalogs in the late-1950s were showing rompers for boys up to 4 years. Another French reader writes, "About the acceptable romper age, rompers durings the 1940s and 50s were very popular boy through age 4 years. All the sewing pattern model rompers at the beginning of the decade could order from 1 till 6 years age. That means a child aged beetween 6 and 7 years old. Beginning in the 1960s the age of boys wearing rompers began to decline. After the 1960s, rompers became increasingly less common and were mostly worn by infants and toddlers. French boys now wear rompers are mostly infants and todlers.
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