Fashion Statement: The Bloomer and its Impact on the Women's

While doing research for my series on the suffragist movement in the United States, I came across a very interesting trend that was briefly popular during the mid-19th century. Elizabeth Smith Miller debuted the "Bloomer" costume in 1851 . Miller was working in her garden and became irritated when her long and heavy skirts got…

Amelia Bloomer influence 1917 1910s

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Amelia Bloomer National Women's History Museum

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Amelia's bloomers reformed women's fashion

bloomers Fashion History Timeline

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