Figure 1.--"Le petit écho de la mode" in its February 1947 issue offered several blouses. One is pictutured here worn with a suspender romper referred to as a "culotte à bretelles". The blouse is front buttoning with puff-sleeves and a Peter Pan collar . |
"Le petit écho de la mode" in its February 1947 issue offered a ensemble or trousseau for a younger boy. "Trosseau" is of course used in the French sence of a group of garments in general rather than in the English sence of a bridal outfit. The title of the page reads "Le trousseau de mon petit garçon." Which means "The outfit or wardrobe for the small boy." The words under the caption read. "Voici avec leur patron réduit (patron réduit = reduced pattern) quelque modèles vous permettant de constituer un trousseau pratique et complet pour votre petit garçon"." This means, "Here are the reduced pattern, some models allowing you to make a practical and complete wardrobe for a boy." The article suggests the patterns for a boy 3-4 years old.
Le petit écho de la mode in its February 1947 issue offered a third blouse pattern. This was another puffed-sleve blouse, but it was not as heavily smocked. It had a rounded Peter Pan collar with detailing and what looks like matching detailing on the cuffs of the puffed sleeves. Like the other blouses, it was front buttoning. It is no immediately apparent why this blouse was shown separate from the two shown right above it. The three look quite similar, all with the puff-sleeve style popular to be worn with romper bottoms.
The blouse was shown as to be wirn with a suspender romper bottom. While the caption say "Other blouse", the text goes in to more detail on the romper bottoms which are called "culotte à bretelles", suspender shorts in wool or velvet. The mother could select whatever color she wanted.
Two different blouses were shown. The ad copy read: 4. Autre blouse sur le méme patron. Garnie de piqúres, en tóile de sole, cotonnade ou flaneile, sile se parte avec culotte à bretelles en lainage ou velours. (Culotte 0 m 55 en 140)
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