Figure 1.--This american boy wears a sailor suit with a plain collar, in this case matching the body of the blouse. Note the emroidered fleur-de-leis on the dicky. |
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We note middy blouse collars that were plain without any detailing. Here we mean bloses done with a plain flat collar. These plain middy blouses were often considered an elegant variant to stripe detailing. There were two basic kinds of plain collars. First, Some collars were the same color as the body of the middy blouse. This is a little tricky because some blouses had sripes embroidered in the same color as the colar rather than a contrasting color. Second, other collars were done in contrasting colors. Middy blouses were done in various colors. These plain collars were usually the dark blue or white middy blouses, butvwe do see some other colors. The back flaps always matched the front collar colors. This is often difficult to assess given the black-and-white photography of the day. They were usually worn with with dickies. And while the collar did not have the traditional stripes, the dicket often had an embroidered design of various motifs.
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