Figure 1.--Here we see three American brothers in their backyard. Notice the car in the driveway. The boys look to be about 3-10 years old. It is a good example as to how boys dressed at different ages in the 1920s. The boys wear rompers, a short pants sailor suit, and a sports collar shirt with knickers. The snapshot is undated but looks like it was taken about 1925. Click on the image for a fuller discussion.

We see a wide age range for children wearing rompers. Here gender was a major factor. We note todlers wearing rompers in the 1920s. Catalogs offer age indicators. One catalog offer rompers for children 6 months to 2 years. Another has rompers for boys up to 6 years. We do not see boys that age wearing rompers in the photographic record. We suspct that the larger sizs did not sell very well, at least for boys. Almost all of the images we have found in the photograogic record are pre school boys and mostly only boys uo to about age 3 years. School age girls wore ropers, but not to school. They did wear romper bloomers for gym in high school. We see school age girls wearing rompers to school