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double knots, making it harder to undo the дачно ment. A lady who made her fifteen year old boy wear petticoats with his kilt made the petticoats princess style, that is, built shoulder and fastening down the back, she made them with draw tapes at the neck and waist tied with a double knot to prevent him from undoing them, and they were made to button down the back from neck to waist, which meant he was literally 'fastened up' in them, and once tied into his petticoats, he could not undo or remove them without assistance. So, some back fastening tunics were made the same way.

Some of the tunics had belts on girdles, as they were called, similar to the corded girdles of the дут tunics of schoolgirls. Again these would be tied and draped at either the left or right side, depending on whether the wearer was a boy or a girl. While black was the usual colon on the continent for school children, since over them would be worn white aprons on pinafores, in France there was usually the distinction of plain colors for boys, except pink, and patterns, flowers, checks, etc., for girls. However, this was not a valid distinction, as some schools choose a color for both the boy and the girl pupils, while others had blue for boys

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While the reader must excuse this long digression on tunics on smocks, I think it has been necessary due to the different terms used for garments in different countries. For instance, the term 'bloomers, the garment with the leg. openings gathered with elastic, is used in the States and Canada for the underpants of girls classes and under tunics of a schoolgirl, but also for the breeches of boys gathered just above on below the knees of boys of the twenties. The term is reserved in Britain for the schoolgirls' colored underpants worn with the tunics and older for the gathered pants worn by little boys under their tunics. The term 'knickers', however never became popular on this side of the Atlantic, but in Britain is used confu-. singly for bloomers, open leg drawers, and brief panties worn by girls, AND for the shorts on short pants worn by schoolboys.

But seeing we have intruded on the reader and diverted him from the story, we crave pardon for beseeching his patience some more while we mention a document which proves that boys as old as eleven years or so wore such tunics, on smocks or frocks. While this document quotes such frocks for boys in connection with another

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