Figure 1.-- Here we see a family snapshot of children in a leafy suburb playing in the street during World War II (June 1942). Notice the V for victory sign. The girl is wearing strioed 't-shits like the boys, but with romper pants. This was just before T-shirts with logos and popular figures became all the thing.

We do not have a lot of information on American rompers during the 1940s. As far as we can tell, attitudes toward romper took a definative gender term. They became seen as a mostly girls garment, except for babies and todlers. We have found some family snapshots. We see school-age girls girls wearing romper outfits as casual summer wear. They were, however, not very common for boys other than babies. We have found very little evidence of boys wearing rompers beyond the infant or very early toddler stage in the photographic record. We see a few pre-school boys wearing them, but relatively few. We note matching brother-sister H-bar rompers in 1941 on the previous page. But for the most part we only see girls wearing rompers and only as casual wear. Here we have a good example in 1942 (figure 1). In this case it looks like only romper pants. This was just before T-shirts with logos and popular figures became popular.