Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified English family on a beach outing in Somerset (southwestern England) during 1928. The girls and younger boy wear protective rompers. Their older brother wears white long pants. The rompers are clearly being worn as a protective garment with regular clothes undeneath. Mamy of the romper images we have found so far are beach scenes like this.

Rompers in England seem to have been a kind of play suit. We have not noted the more formal rompers as sometimes seen in France, but our archive here is still very limited. As far as we can tell so far, rompers in England beyond the infant stage were mostly worn as utilitarian play clothes, often over rather than instead of other clothes as was the general, practice in France. Rompers, im some cases done in water reelent fabric, seem to have been particularly popular as beachwear. Many of the images e have found are children on family beach outingsd, wearing rompers as a protective garment. They were not for swimming, but for children paddling along the beach amd playing in the sand. We notice an unidentified boy wearing romper pants as beachwear in 1927. Notive he is wearing a blouse or shirt with the rompers. We notice similar images into the 1950s. HBC still has only limited little information about English rompers.