Both men and conservative women ridiculed activists sporting the pants, “dubbing the suffragettes wearing bloomers as radical,” she adds. Despite being mocked, both Bloomer and Elizabeth Cady ...

Before long, suffragettes all over the country were wearing bloomers. “These women used the outfit as a form of protest, ...

Using peach baskets as hoops and wearing royal blue bloomers with black shirts ... The audience was exclusively women, since the bloomers worn in public by the players were considered immodest and ...

The feminine silhouettes were developed in the 19th century, a time when women’s wardrobes ... all micro-trends, bloomers became too popular. Almost to the point that wearing them, especially ...

The nickname was a topical one in the autumn of 1851 when the first engine arrived on the line, because of the current popular excitement aroused by the appearance of women wearing trousers ... myth ...

decades before women gained the vote. Made to wear the same garb as male gardeners so as not to distract their colleagues, their brown woollen bloomers soon made the news. As the satirical ...

Now in it’s fourth decade, the city’s biggest fashion event was certainly a time for reflection — particularly against the ...

But it was a great moment in the infancy of women’s basketball when bloomers were introduced at ... Men didn’t start wearing them until conquering Persians took them from us.

After writing a book about the history of the Oxford Playhouse, the Eynsham resident decided to focus on women's bloomers and his new book Wearing the Trousers has now been published. The ...