Figure 1.-- The children here are Josepheous and Belinda Humphreys, 2½ and 4½ years old. (The boy's name is difficult to read. Have a look at the back to see the writing, perhaps you think you can make it out better. thevwriting blooks to be that of one of the children, but not at the age shown.) The boy wears a romper suit, the girl wears short pants. They are at Sandgate along the Kent Channel coast in 1958. The background seems strange for the beach, but we see a beach bucket and wooden spade. The snapshot is 9 cm square.

While we have not noted many examples of English boys wearing rompers in the photogrphic record, we do notice a few for play wear, especially for beach wear. Whether this constitutes a good indication of prevalece we are not entrely sure. A substantial portion of the rompers images we have found from England are family beach snapshots. Rompers seem popular for beach play in the sand. Some of the rompers we do see were not like short pants like casual wear, but rubberized garments to be worn over a child's clothes for plying on the breach, kind of like a smock-like potective garments only with baloon pants with elastizied leg closures. These were not swim suits ike the ones worn by some American girls, but beach play outfits. We notice both romper suits and romper pants with bib fronts. We mostly see these rompers in the 1920s and 30s, primarily snapshots. What ever the style of romper, the ones we see are mostly playwear and most commonly worn at the beach.