Figure 1.-- Here we have an unidentified French boy wearing bib-front rompers wth his older brother and his brother's friends. He looks to be about 5-years old. The other boys are all school age. The snapshot was taken just after World War II in 1946.

Many French boys also wore romper suits at age 5 years, perhaps not as many as the 2-4 year old group, but we still quite a number of boys in the photographic record. It is the last age that we see really largenumber of boys wearing rompers. This is because most boys did not wear rompers when they began school, We see many boys still wearing rompers as play garments at age 5. There are quite a few snapshots showing this. We see a few boys wearing rompers to 1st grade, but not very many. Nursery school was different. Some children attended maternelle (nursery school) in the 1940s, although it does not seem nearly as common as it became later in the post-War era. The maternelles were often attached to primary schools, but the programs were kept separate. We do see some of the maternelle children wearing rompers. We see fifferent sty;es, especiially romper suits anf h-bar rompers. White seems a very common color. It is a little difficult to tell from black and white photographs as light blue was also a common color.