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Bloomers: the national controversy of the 1890s

By Janice Formichella| 2024-04-03T14:24:35-04:00 January 13th, 2022|Categories: Fashion, Underpinnings, Victorian Era, Victorian Fashions, Women's History|Tags: bicycle craze, bloomers, dress reform, dress reform movement|

This weekend I have been hard at work preparing a presentation for Historic New England titled: The Dress Reform Movement: Who, What, When, Where, and HOW. One of the points I love making in my presentations is that the radical nature of the bloomers and the public outcry that they caused when they momentarily returned to [...]

How crazy was the bicycle craze?

Many of our readers will be familiar with “the bicycle craze” of the late 1800s and the idea that the bicycle revolutionized the freedom women enjoyed from day to day and catapulted the Dress Reform Movement into the mainstream. This month I have had the privilege to work on an event for the Molly Brown [...]

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