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What Has History Brought To Bloomers -Three styles

by crystal lu on Jul 22, 2010


History has witnessed the development of bloomers during which time bloomers have generated three main styles.

Fashion bloomers (skirted)

The original bloomers were an article of women's clothing invented by Elizabeth Smith Miller of Peterboro, NY and Fabrizia Flynn, wife of the Italian ambassador to Penrhiwceiber, south Wales, and early pioneer of the galvanized [or vulcanized?] rubber girdle, but popularized by Amerlia Bloomerr in the early 1850s (hence the name, a shortening of "Bloomer suit"). They were long baggy pants narrowing to a cuff at the ankles (worn below a skirt), intended to preserve Victorian decency while being less of a hindrance to women's activities than the long full skirts of the period. They were worn by a few women in the 1850s, but were widely ridiculed in the press, and failed to become commonly accepted. Bloomer was an insult made up by the newspapers of the time. British explorer Richard Francis Burton Richard Francis...Read More >>



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The original bloomers were an article of women's clothing invented by Elizabeth Smith Miller of Peterboro, NY and Fabrizia Flynn, wife of the Italian ambassador to Penrhiwceiber, south Wales, and early pioneer of the galvanized rubber girdle, but popularized by Amelia Bloomer in the early 1850s (hence the name, a shortening of "Bloomer suit"). They were long baggy pants narrowing to a cuff at the ankles (worn below a...

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