I LOVE silk chiffon pussycat bow shirts!!! (That's if she wore them in The Fall, but I have a feeling she did?) I've never thought about why they got that name though. Just looked it up & isn't this interesting?
A lavallière, also called a pussycat bow or pussybow, is a style of neckwear worn with women's and girls' blouses and bodices. It is a bow tied at the neck, which has been likened to those sometimes put on "pussy cats".
While bows at the neck had been worn since at least the 19th century; the term "pussy cat bow" took hold in the 20th century. It has been suggested that "There has always been something subtly subversive about the pussybow", and that it "evokes defiance". Kate Strasdin of Falmouth University says "Historically, it's associated with women who are starting to invade male spaces – the golf course, the workplace – and challenge traditional dress codes". The pussybow blouse is often paired with trousers.
I'm going to look mine out & evoke defiance!!!