Hair-bowed

Dressed in short skirts, pig-tailed and hair-bowed, the seniors vied for prizes in costumes, played games and were taken to the movies (half-price) by their junior sisters.

He loves them all — the short, crying kindergartners who come in clinging to their mothers on the first day; the freshly scrubbed, hair-bowed little girls; the rough-and-tumble boys.

Hello Kitty, that charming little hair-bowed sweetheart that’s made the folks at Sanrio very, very wealthy for the last several decades, is apparently, according to Hello Kitty expert Christine R. Yano, “not a cat.”