Amelia Bloomer Didn’t Mean to Start a Fashion Revolution, But Her Name Became Synonymous With Trousers In the 1850s, women’s rights activists briefly adopted a new style in an effort to liberate themselves from heavy dresses

Amelia Bloomer Didn’t Mean to Start a Fashion Revolution, But Her Name Became Synonymous With Trousers

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How bloomers became a feminist fashion statement

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Public relations portrait of Amelia Bloomer as used in the History of Woman Suffrage by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Volume I, published in 1881.

Amelia Bloomer was an American newspaper editor, women’s rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women’s clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her advocacy.

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