Figure 1.--This Dutch boy wears a romper sunsuit coordimate with the sundress worn by his younger sister. The outfits appeared in a 1951 Dutch woman's magazine. The boy looks to be 7-8 years old.
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Figure 1.--This Dutch boy wears a romper sunsuit coordimate with the sundress worn by his younger sister. The outfits appeared in a 1951 Dutch woman's magazine. The boy looks to be 7-8 years old. |
We have noted one boy in 1951 who looks to be about 7 or 8 years old wearing a sun-suit type romper for beachwear. His sister wears a coordinated outfit, but with a skirt and not romper bottoms. I'm not sure how popular rompers were for boys this age, but they look to have been more common weith younger boys.
Rompers were a style for yonger boys. They were primarily worn by pre-school boys. Boys up to 5 or 6 years old might wear them, usually pre-school boys. After boys began school they were lkess likely to wear rompers. Some slightly older boys, however did wear them. HBC has noted photographs of boys as old as old as 7-8 years wear them. The biy hear looks to be about 8 years old.
This romper is a sunsuit style with a bibfront and worn without a shirt or blouse. The bibfront on these Dutch rompers tend to be small. There is detailing in a white and contrasting colored stripe. The stripes are used to coordinate the boys' and girls' outfits. The romper bottom appears to have an elasticized waist.
The black and white image provides no clues as to the color.
I'm not sure what material was used.
HBC does not fully understand the social class variations concrning the romper garment. We beieve that rompers were most popular with affluent families. Older boys wearing rompers appear to have primarily been boys from affluent families.
This image appeared in a Dutch woman's magazine in 1951. The age conventions for rompers have changed over time. They appear to have been weorn by boys of 5 and 6 in the 1950s. As can be seen here even older boys night wear them.
Rompers appear to have been a boy's garment. Note that his younger sister in a coordinated outfit wears a sun dress not a romper suit.
The Dutch woman's magzine in 1951 saw dressing siblings in coordinated outfits as a charming family fashions. Brothers might be dressed in matching outfits. Brothers and sisters as in this case might have coordinated out fits. Here te bibfront, color and detailing are identical. Onlt the romper and skirt biottoms are different.
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