How old is too old for a bubble suit?

[Mummagumma]

DS is 17 months. He still counts as a baby, therefore I think I can sew him a little bubble suit thing like this for the summer yellow one in the top right corner
DP thinks he is too old. What do you think?

YANBU but why would you want to? That pattern's older than I am!

Of course he's not too old.

He's just at least 5 decades too late.... it is far too old fashioned for a boy.

Is it the elastic around the thighs that make it old fashioned?

I'm more curious to know how accessible it is for nappy changing - it'd be a full on hassle to have to strip him every single time. What's wrong with a pair of shorts and a t-shirt?

You sew snaps in. I just think they are cute, that's all. He wears loads of shorts and t-shirts too, of course; I wear jeans sometimes, skirts sometimes. A bit of variety is nice.
This kind of thing. Slightly edgier fabrics though.
www.flickr.com/photos/freerangebaby/3196910319/

Those are better! Although I recommend a special pair of pliers for poppers, sew in ones just come straight off (or am i a bti crap?) Anyway, I love my Prym ones from Hobbycraft!

I have photos of my dad in a bubble suit!! When he was a baby obviously.

You'll probably get a lot of nice comments from old folk, and everyone else will go and then check their surroundings to make sure they haven't accidently slipped into a time-warp back to 1947!

Have you considered making him a one-piece knitted swimsuit too?

Also the shape was designed to accommodate a bulky triangle-fold terry nappy. If he's wearing a disposable or shaped cloth nappy then the fit might be a bit strange if you use the old pattern.

Maybe no elastic is best for a boy child then. Like these:
farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/3704966503_76b1eeb4ed.jpg
I wish I'd made something bubbly last year when he was smaller. I'll just have to sniff out a girl baby to inflict them on. I really want to make some!

Oh yes, I did buy those pliers once for a knitted jacket thing. Have no idea where they would be now though; I'll have to dig around. But yep, far better than sewn ones.

Those are much more modern looking! Do check the pattern against his size though - I found a lot of DS's dungarees and bangs were much too wide for him.

I suggest you nick the top half of this

You have now both excited and depressed me with that link. Excited - I found a copy of a dolls' pattern I used when I was about 10 to learn to sew - am buying it to make clothes for DD2 & 3's dolls. Depressed - saw a size 16 ladies' pattern from the 1950s, thought I could buy it to make a new outfit for Goodwood Revival. I'm an M&S 12/14 so thought size 16 would be about right - oh no, looked at the photo of the pattern envelope - I'm a size 20! Vanity sizing obviously worked for me until that point...