Blouses

They had both discarded their tunics in favour of what they called blouses, loose holland garments like long ❋ Sydney C. Grier (1900)

Something that alot of ladies don't consider when wearing dresses or nice blouses is that even though the neckline may appear modest, if care isn't taken when bending down it can be just as immodest as a very low neckline. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was then very common for young men in college and elsewhere to wear what were called blouses -- a kind of hunter's frock, made at first of brown holland, belted at the waist, these being gradually developed into garments of gay-colored chintz, sometimes, it was said, an economical transformation of their sisters 'skirts or petticoats. ❋ George William Curtis (1858)

If I seem particularly sensitive about this subject, it's because this week, my husband accidentally took one of my "blouses" in for dry cleaning along with his "shirts", and lo and behold they cleaned the thing for only $1.99 instead of my usual price of $5.99! ❋ Aka TBTAM (2007)

He knew what size shoe she wore and what kind of blouses she liked, her taste in cosmetics and where she bought her furniture. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1999)

And numerous are shops luxuriating in waists, "blouses," lingerie, and "novelties" of dress. ❋ Robert Cortes Holliday (N/A)

"A sort of gardener boy -- the boy whose sort of sister makes kind of blouses in the village." ❋ Ada Leverson (1897)

At first they had employed her exclusively on the cheapest kind of blouses -- those that were paid for at the rate of two shillings a dozen, but they did not give her many of that sort now. ❋ Robert Tressell (1890)

Ennis held the lamp on high, and with his free hand Lanier began throwing out the contents -- a new uniform dress coat, an older one that had done duty for the three previous years, two sack coats or "blouses," the police officers 'overcoat of the day, several pairs of blue trousers, with the broad stripe of the cavalry, and these as they came were flung on the bed by ❋ Charles King (1888)

Father Bernard confirmed me in my suspicions of the hidden fermentation, for some coming evil, working among the 'blouses' of Antwerp, and he would fain have had me depart from out the city; but ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Her partner, Maria de los Angeles Davila Garcia, has been making typical clothing such as blouses, aprons, shirts, suits, etc. for six years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They're charging less for stripped-down products such as blouses with less-frilly designs and detergents with less powerful cleaning action. ❋ [email protected] (ANNE D’INNOCENZIO; (2009)

Andrea is requesting a loan to buy more merchandise such as blouses, sweaters, skirts, and shirts for the Christmas season. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yes, tight blouses and short wool skirts … but also a dimly lit, dedicated erotica section. tolmsted says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Skinny jeans, peasant blouses, heels with wedges – all trends eventually depart the collective wardrobe. ❋ Lucy Siegle (2010)

I'd go to Dillard's and take a few blouses or a cute lacy nothing from Victoria's Secret. ❋ D'Arcy Fallon (2010)

They might not get the retro references with the lace that trims delicate blouses and the slinky embroidered tulle dress worn like a robe over tap pants, but they'll look good in them. ❋ Unknown (2011)