Figure 1.--Here we see an English boy and his father, probably in their back garden. The boy wears a sleeveless romper suit. He looks to be about 3-years old. He wears a sleeveless romper suit. Most of the French suits had baloon sleeves. The snapshot is undated, but we believe was taken in the late-1940s or early-50s.

Boys may have worn French-styled rompers in the 1940s and 50s, but we have very little information. We have found a few examples, but not yet the baloon-sleeve romper suits. One example shows a sleeveless romper suit. We have not yet found that in France. We have found only a few images. This is enough to tell us that rompers were worn, but not how commonly or the age conventions. As HBC grows, we hope to find more information on this. We do not think they were nearly as common in Britain as they were in France or even Germany. (Large quantities of French consumer goods like clothing were shipped to Germany during the World War II occupation (1940-44). As far as we can tell, rompers were still only for boys.