Figure 1.--Here we see at an unidentified Fascist Bailla summer camp in the 1930s. We are not sure what the girls are doing, but they are all wearing uniform romper suits with Bailla caps. It is institutional settings like this that we mostly see rompers in Italy, especially for girls.

Italian girls like girls throughout Europe mostly wore dresses or other skirted outfits like blouses and skirts. Pinafores and smocks were also widely worn. We begin to see some changes after World War I. Many of these changes were first seen in institutional settings such as school gym classes and the summer camps that the Fascist Government began to sponsor throughout the country. One of those garments was rompers. Unlike France where rompers were especially popular, girls also wore rompers in Italy. Here we notice girls wearing uniform rompers with Bailla camps at a Fascist summer camp during the 1930s (figure 1). There were differences. we note boys wearing both dressy and play rompers. The play rompers were most common for boys, but we do see some dressy rompers. This we do not see for girls. Here for girls we only see play rompers, mostly in institutional settings like schools, orphanages, and camps. We see very few girls wearing rompers in home settings in outfits selected by them and their mothers.

Created: 7:30 PM 9/21/2016
Last updated: 7:30 PM 9/21/2016