Amelia Bloomer & Dress Reform, Or: How Women Came to Wear Pants

Amelia Bloomer and Dress Reform is a brief history a little known aspect of the women's movement of the 19th Century. The dress reform movement strove to change the constrictive use of corsets and heavy petticoats the were both dangerous to women's health and extremely constrictive to movement.

Filled with numerous pictures of women's dress and advertisements of the day, this is an interesting and informative look into our history.

"Let men be compelled to wear our dress for a while, and we should soon hear them advocating a change, as loudly as they now condemn it." (Amelia Bloomer, Lily, March 1851, Vol. 3, No. 3, pg. 21)