blouses

They had both discarded their tunics in favour of what they called blouses, loose holland garments like long

The Path to Honour 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.

Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 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.

Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis 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!

Walmart offering $9 Birth Control Pills 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.

A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999

And numerous are shops luxuriating in waists, "blouses," lingerie, and "novelties" of dress.

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

"A sort of gardener boy -- the boy whose sort of sister makes kind of blouses in the village."

The Limit 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.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 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

Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest 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

Curious, if True Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837