One of the ads spells out the long-gone clothing brand of Honor Bright in bold red letters floating in sky blue, along with the blurb: "Boys Blouses, Shirts and Playsuits for Real Boys From Morn 'Till Night".
The kind of brand where a boy in a blouse would cause an uproar.
"Reasonable" is not further defined for boys, but girls' blouses "must be worn to waistline when arms are raised".
The school has a strict uniform policy of blazers, shirts and ties for boys, and blazers, blouses and skirts for girls in the first five years.
Key to this look was the pussybow blouse for boys – the first model, with long, blond tresses, wore a red floppy blouse and high-waisted flares.
Blouses on boys on the dancefloor – think Marc Bolan meets Brett Anderson.
The flower in the boy's hair and the blouse coming off his shoulders I think signify that the boy is a male prostitute.
Whether wearing Tod's loafers and an L. L. Bean field jacket like Dad, or Chanel perfume and a suede peasant blouse like Mom, boys and girls are hitting the books in low-fad, high-end fashions that could charm even the most persnickety schoolmarm.
So when her grandfather, who always asks why she wears boys clothes, gave her a blouse for her birthday, told us how it made her feel sad.
But mostly, the crowd went silent, amazed at the sight of the gold-complexioned, almond-eyed boys in their exotic blue blouses and soft slippers.
— Each summer for about three decades, children of Ukrainian descent have converged on a wooded retreat here in the Catskills, the girls donning embroidered blouses, and the boys puffy Cossack pants, to learn the folk dances of their ancestors.
