Talk:Romper suit

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Difference to a playsuit?
Question here. --Rinaku (t · c) 11:42, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Merger of Romper suit with Playsuit (ladies' clothing)
The definition of a romper suit and a playsuit (as an adult garment), as given on both articles, are similar. A quick web search shows that they are often considered to mean the same thing, and in fact I could not find a difference explicited anywhere. As pointed out in this discussion, the historical information given in both articles also looks pretty similar (like being in fashion in the 1970s).

The one significant difference I found between the two words is when talking about kid's clothing: an infant romper is similar to an adult romper whereas a Playsuit (children's clothing) is something else.

So I think the articles should be merged under either name (romper seems more popular but I don't know how to separate the adult and kid meanings), with the Playsuit page still disambiguating from the other meanings of that word.

The curious may notice that most interlanguage links currently given for Romper suit describe garments that are not in fact rompers. That is a separate issue (and the one that brought me here). --Rinaku (t · c) 19:49, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Tentative oppose/Comment My immediate reaction was to support, but then I looked back at the article, and I think it could be kept as a page specifically focused on the infant clothing garment, with a hatnote to redirect to Playsuit for the adult/fashion version? Mabalu (talk) 10:18, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge this language is imprecise, and what is a romper in some contexts is a playsuit in others, and sometimes the words mean unrelated things. But its clear that they are basically the same item of clothing.  Mabalu's idea about the infant version already has its own article: Infant bodysuit.  -- Jayron 32 14:43, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
 * However, I would think of an infant bodysuit as an elastic/stretchy garment and a romper as a baby garment made from non-elastic stretchy fabric. The Infant bodysuit makes no reference to rompers, not even as an alternative name, maybe because they're not the same thing at all. Mabalu (talk) 15:00, 19 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Merge As far as I can tell, the article content is significantly overlapping, for example both imply popularity in the 1970s, and both mention a resurgence in 2006. Are these related fashion trends or the same? I'm guessing the later. Nor have I seen anyone offer a good well sourced explanation of any well accepted difference (any differences I've seen have been far from universally accepted). Therefore a merge makes sense. In terms of the infant clothing, I wouldn't be opposed to an article if someone wrote a good sourced one that adequately explained the well accepted (per the sources) difference between an infant body suit and a romper, but until someone does so it's no point speaking in hypotheticals. Nil Einne (talk) 13:30, 21 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Not sure if I'm doing this edit correctly, sorry if not... Romper Suit seems to primarily refer to the child's garment, while Play Suit is exclusively for the adult (a google image search tends to confirm), and I think the origin is different, although I grant that the current garments are similar.  Then again, would be merge 'boiler suit' ? I definitely vote to keep them separate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Porjes (talk • contribs) 17:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't see such a clear distinction. While searching romper suit returns a majority of (but not only) infant clothing, just romper shows only adults. Conversely, while playsuit alone returns only adults, infant playsuit gives plenty of results. (I'm using DuckDuckGo because they don't customize results so we should be seeing the same thing.) --Rinaku (t · c) 18:18, 22 May 2017 (UTC) @

Reason for removing citations
Hi

I added some citations to the page which I noticed were removed by you. Since I'm new to Wikipedia editing, could you explain to me the reason for their removal? Also, how is it considered as spamming? Thank you in advance. Globaltrends.LK (talk) 11:15, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Image
The second image of the article shows a garment with what are clearly not shorts, as are described in the lede. The article and image seem incompatible. As a non-expert of the subject, it appears one of the two should be corrected. Voyaging talk 13:53, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * It is a baby's romper suit, as described in the first paragraph in the History section which discusses babies' and children's clothing, and is displayed in the Edinburgh Museum of Childhood clearly labelled as a "romper". Mabalu (talk) 21:17, 11 October 2020 (UTC)