Bloomers Collection

Suffragette - Womens Rights - Bloomerism
A woman wearing bloomers is stopped by a Policeman from entering a Ladies Public Toilet as she is wearing bloomers, which PC Plod views as unsuitable for a lady! Date: 1913

Barred from Womens Lecture for wearing bloomers
A woman wearing bloomers is stopped by a Vicar from entering a Lecture (for Women Only !) as she is wearing bloomers, which Rev Self Righteous views as totally unsuitable for a lady! Date: 1911

Putting on Ice Skates
Three young women, sitting down to put on their ice skates at Wimbledon Common, London. One girl is accidentally showing off her bloomers!

Man and Woman of Friesland (Holland). A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

The Bloomer Costume. Woman wearing bloomers dress and trousers fashion Date: 1851

Showing her Knickers
A young woman lifts her dress to reveal her drawers which have decorative vandyked trim. She also wears a cloche hat, silk stockings and tango heel shoes

Cycling Outfit of 1890S
A young woman wearing the daring new rational cycling outfit akin to bloomers

Amelia Bloomer, Originator of the New Dress - the first sight the British public received of the scandalous new attire for women

Bloomers in Hyde Park
A view of things to come - women wearing the trousers. All of female kind take to wearing bloomers. A kilted scotsman chats to a newly emancipated lady

Model in outdoor suit - cycling
Model in matching outdoor suit of knickerbockers (bloomers / plus fours) perfectly designed for cycling. Date: circa 1946

Comic Postcard - Golfing Humour - One Down
Comic Postcard - " Wasn t I two up at the last hole, Caddie?" " Yes, but yer one down now, Lady!" circa 1930s

Turkey - Vice Admiral, Captain, Navy Officer and Sailor
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. From left to right: Vice Admiral, Captain, Navy Officer and Sailor (ca. 1780). Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Monnin

Comic postcard, Manufacturer of ladies bloomers Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man looking for lost football - Inside Right (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman on the beach. Everybodys enjoying the beautiful sunsets down here! Date: 20th century

Bloomers - latest in fashion 1909
Suzanne Bergere walking around Paris, quite radical clothing for the late Edwardian era, a pair of nickerbockers

Prinking before the ball, 1858. Women primping in front of a mirror. Women in wide dress fixing a bracelet on a woman in off-the-shoulder, flounced crinoline dress. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Sunday at the Tuileries, 1831
Woman promenading in Sunday Best in the park. She wears a wide-brim hat, dress with full sleeves, ankle boots and carries a parasol. Sunday at the Tuileries Garden, 1831

Huntsman jumping a fence and interfering with
Huntsman jumping a fence on an old nag and interfering with the pack of hounds. Facey Romford irritating Jonathan Lotherington during a hunt. Romford disturbs the dignity of his Hunt

Portrait of Augusta Georgina Frederica Fitzclarence
Augusta Georgina Frederica Fitzclarence, daughter of Lord Frederic Fitzclarence, illegitimate son of King William IV. She wears her hair in ringlets and ribbons

Portrait of Frances Diana, daughter of Viscount Canterbury
Portrait of Frances Diana, daughter of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury. Seated on a cushion, she wears her hair in plaits and curls, and wears a dress decorated with lace

Portrait of the daughters of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke
Portrait of Emily Blanche Charlotte, Rose Caroline and Emily Catherine Anne Somerset, daughters of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort

Early Victorian womens fashions
A range of early Victorian womens fashions. 1897

The Bloomer Song, by J H Nightingale and C Milward
Promotional music sheet for The Bloomer Song, by J H Nightingale and C Milward, performed nightly with great applause by Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam in the farce Bloomerism or The Follies of the Day

Bloomerism 1852
Cruikshanks Exhibition of Bloomers in Hyde Park - a satire on the fashion which Amelia Bloomer made famous Date: 1852

AMELIA BLOOMER / POLKA
AMELIA BLOOMER American reformer who wore full trousers for women now known as bloomers Date: 1818 - 1894

AMELIA BLOOMER American reformer who wore full trousers for women now known as bloomers Date: 1818 - 1894

Bloomers on Clothes Line
Three pairs of bloomers pegged out on a clothes line!

Brittany, France - two men in traditional costume. Date: circa 1910s

The Tatler Xmas No 1927
Front cover of The Tatler, Christmas Number featuring a 19th century couple from around 1830 - she wearing a crinoline, bonnet

Roses of Punjab
Five Roses of Punjab (followed on the card caption with the words " I don t think" !!!)

Lady Takes a Tumble / 1918
An elegant lady takes a rather less elegant tumble

Music cover, The Bloomer Polkas -- The Promenade and The At Home. circa 1850s

Swimwear / Barbier 1913
Pretty bathing belle in a swimsuit consisting of a high waisted & belted tunic (presumably with shorts or bloomers beneath) & a matching cap daintily holds a crab. Date: 1913

COUPLE YANKEE
Two girls wearing costumes allegorically representing a French persons conception of what is characteristic of America... Date: late 19th century

Bloomers 1851
The American ladies new costume - the bloomer Date: 1851

Suffragette Ceramic Black Woman
A hand-painted suffragette ceramic figure of a black African woman, wearing a corset and short bloomers. In her right hand she holds a brown club, and in her left hand, a sign which reads

Women Workers WW1. Two women stand at the factory gates, reading a notice. Captioned, Working in shifts and no Bloomers. Date: circa 1916

Womens Rights - Popularity of wearing Trousers as a choice mildly satirised in this humorous 1910s cartoon postcard. Date: circa 1910s

Portugal - Madeira - Traditional costumes. The Grey heaired (and bearded) guitarist is wearing a distinctive pointed carapuca hat

Tunis, Tunisia - A Jewish Woman and her son Date: 1910s

So Far So Good - A fine pair of ankles, calves, knees and
" So Far So Good" - A fine pair of ankles, calves, knees and... Date: circa 1910s

Elderly Breton Man, France wearing distinctive traditional wide-bodied short trousers (almost bloomers) and leggings, wide-brimmed hat and jerkin waistcoat. Date: 1903

The harem skirt, the scare m skirt, the harum-scarum skirt
A satirical look at womens fashion in 1911. Date: January 1911

Lots of Bread
Bread in some its many forms : Bread buns, wholemeal sliced loaf, wholemeal tin loaf, white tin loaf, bloomers, etc. etc.! Date: 1980

Can Can Dancer - Patte en L air
Can Can Dancer performing a " Patte en L air" (basic translation: " Feet in the Air" !). Date: 1905

Lady in Harem pants draws amazed reactions
A rotund lady draws breath (it appears she has been wound in to a VERY tight corset!) as she ascends some steep stares, but also draws gasps of astonishment from three gentleman

New Woman - Rebuked by parents
A New Woman in her modern outdoor attire draws a rebuke from her parents, captioned with a quote from Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus Act V Scene 3): " Why Art Thou thus attired

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