Girls' Youth Group Uniforms: Organizations--Girl Guides

Figure 1.--Here we have an Englisg Bronie. The photigraph is undated, but we would guess in the late 1970s. ThevBrownies were the junior unit of the Girl Guides. It was comparable to the Cun Scouts but for girls.

Following the creation of the Bpys' Brigade and Boy Scouts, several uniformed youth organizations were founded for girls. The first was the Girl Guides in England. Guides were subsequently founded in many other countrues. We notice a Greek Guide in Alexandria, Egypt. The junior division of the Guides were the Brownies. The Brownie uniforms was a brown all in one skirt and top with a yellow thin belt and white knee socks and black strap shoes (figure 1). A reader writes, "I recall my Brownie uniform. It had a a brown short skirt and white lacy knee socks. We were like Cub Scouts but for us girls. My friends and I use to go and being the 70s when short skirts were stylish, we pulled the skirt through the belt thus making the skirt very short, not uncommon for girls doing that today. The Guides had a completely different uniform with a blue shirt. The English Guides were closely associated with the Scouts. The same was true with several other groups. Guide organizations were founded all over the world. In Americ the girls decided to call themselves scouts like the boys even the prganization was completely different.