Figure 1.-- This looks like camp councillers. We kmow that it was at Summitville (Mountainville in Sullivan County New York) during August 1920. The teemage girls are wearing plain middy blouses with matching rompers. Notice that they are wearing long stockings with the rompers. This was almost universal in the 1910s, but rapidly declined in the Roaring Twenties as short skirts and bobbed hair became fashionable.

We notice girls wearing many of the major types of pants, but this varied chronologically. We see girls wearing long pant, mostly after jeans began to become popular (1950s). Girls probably began wearing pants earlier informally n rural areas as work clothes, but it was not the kind clothes that were worn when being photographed. We see some girls weaing overalls in the 1930s, but jeans were not made for girls until 1939. We begin to see fashionable long pants in the 1920s, but they were not worn by girls to any extent until the 1970s. We do not see girls wearing knee pants, prinarily a 19th century style. Nor do we notice than wearing knickers, primarily a 20th century style. We begin to see girls wearing short pants (1920s), but primarily for play and active wear such as gym and camp. We do not see them to any extent in school until mid-century (1960s), first in primary schoola and than in secondary school. We notice capri pants/peddle pushers, another casual style (1950s). Rompers were the first type of pants worn by girls, at first for school gym (late-19th century). They were common in the early-20th centyry, both for gym and summer camp. Until the 1920s they were almost always worn with long stockings. Early bathing suits for girls and women were often done as rompers. Rompers were normally worn with middly blouses, but romper suits appeared in the eraly-20th century, primarily for gym. We notice fashionable rompoer suit playwear (1960s).

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