Figure 1.--This is a German commercial postcard published by the EAS company--Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstage. It pictures a boy with a rosebunch--Rosenstrauß. The boy wears a blue and white romper suit. The card was mailed in 1928. Put our cursor on the image to see the message on the back.

HBC is unclear as to the chronology of rompers in Germany. We do not yet know how common rompers were in the 1920s, but we do know that they were worn. We do not note rompers being worn in Germany before World War I, but this may reflect our limited archive of German images. We can not yet say definitively that they first apeared in the 20s. We do note images after the War, but they do not seem to be very common. Some images are undated so we can not be speciic as to when they first appeared. We do have some dated images including a commercial postcard with a definitive date showing that they were an accepted fashion by the 20s.

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