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Heroines of Women's History

By Tracey McCormick

Published Online: March 02, 2010

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Bloomerism - fashion not only changes lives, it changes history. Library of Congress.

Bloomers became popular because Bloomer and her friends (whom she had met at the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848) started wearing them. Bloomers were more practical than the fashion of the time: heavy skirts, petticoats and whalebone corsets. Also, it's much easier to ride a bicycle and keep your modesty with pants underneath your multiple skirts.

Bloomer became known as an advocate for rational dress reform and is proof that fashion not only changes lives, it also changes history.

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