(1) ‘I'd recommend your friend Sharin as she'll be working with the command staff and our new gunnery officer Amara,’ Laurel said evenly, ‘and an ensign or middy of your choice.’(2) The girls wore gray sweaters or maroon blazers over their white middy blouses .(3) They left the two middies talking to one another, then entered the gundeck with the sound of snores reaching their ears.(4) Ness looked up at the small robot as she straightened the red tie in front of her middy blouse .(5) An image of my middy blouse hanging alone on the clotheslines outside our kitchen window, buffeted by the wind, came to mind.