Girls mainly wore blouses, tunic dress and pinafores. Girls wear white blouses and light blue pinafores. Moppet and Mittens soon have their pinafores smeared with grass stains. Pinafores may be worn as a decorative garment and as a protective apron. In 1953, the King Sisters, as the Gene Autry Blue Jeans, replaced the Pinafores. Pinafores were worn for work and play. Her first book, "From Pinafores to Politics," was published in 1923.