As I've mentioned the Bloomer suit earlier on, I was intrigued to look at this fashion trend in a bit more detail:'In 1851, a New England temperance activist named Elizabeth Smith Miller (Libby Miller) adopted what she considered a more rational costume: loose trousers gathered at the ankles, like the trousers worn by Middle Eastern and Central Asian women, topped by a short dress or skirt and vest. She displayed her new clothing to temperance activist and suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who found it sensible and becoming, and adopted it immediately. In this garb she visited yet another activist, Amelia Bloomer, the editor of the temperance magazine The Lily. Bloomer not only wore the costume, she promoted it enthusiastically in her magazine. More women wore the fashion and were promptly dubbed " Bloomers". The Bloomers put up a valiant fight for a few years, but were subjected to ridicule in the press and harassment on the street.'
More images here.
Thoughts: Both Libby Miller and Amelia Bloomer was one of the first people in history that have made a such a dramatic change into woman's fashion. And the fashion is still one of the most influential trend of all time. This fits into the disppearing and re-appearing theme that I discussed earlier on.
