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Suffragette - Womens Rights - BloomerismA 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 bloomersA 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 SkatesThree 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 KnickersA 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 1890SA 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 ParkA 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 - cyclingModel in matching outdoor suit of knickerbockers (bloomers / plus fours) perfectly designed for cycling. Date: circa 1946
Comic Postcard - Golfing Humour - One DownComic 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 SailorOttoman 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 1909Suzanne 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, 1831Woman 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 withHuntsman 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 FitzclarenceAugusta 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 CanterburyPortrait 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 DukePortrait of Emily Blanche Charlotte, Rose Caroline and Emily Catherine Anne Somerset, daughters of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort
Early Victorian womens fashionsA range of early Victorian womens fashions. 1897
The Bloomer Song, by J H Nightingale and C MilwardPromotional 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 1852Cruikshanks Exhibition of Bloomers in Hyde Park - a satire on the fashion which Amelia Bloomer made famous Date: 1852
AMELIA BLOOMER / POLKAAMELIA 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 LineThree pairs of bloomers pegged out on a clothes line!
Suffragette Ceramic Black WomanA 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
Portugal - Madeira - Traditional costumes. The Grey heaired (and bearded) guitarist is wearing a distinctive pointed carapuca hat
Brittany, France - two men in traditional costume. Date: circa 1910s
The Tatler Xmas No 1927Front cover of The Tatler, Christmas Number featuring a 19th century couple from around 1830 - she wearing a crinoline, bonnet
Roses of PunjabFive Roses of Punjab (followed on the card caption with the words " I don t think" !!!)
Lady Takes a Tumble / 1918An elegant lady takes a rather less elegant tumble
Music cover, The Bloomer Polkas -- The Promenade and The At Home. circa 1850s
Swimwear / Barbier 1913Pretty 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 YANKEETwo girls wearing costumes allegorically representing a French persons conception of what is characteristic of America... Date: late 19th century
Bloomers 1851The American ladies new costume - the bloomer Date: 1851
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
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 skirtA satirical look at womens fashion in 1911. Date: January 1911
Lots of BreadBread 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 airCan Can Dancer performing a " Patte en L air" (basic translation: " Feet in the Air" !). Date: 1905
Lady in Harem pants draws amazed reactionsA 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 parentsA 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
New Women of Australia, pictured on a river bank dressed in bloomers, jackets with leg o mutton sleeves, neckties and bow-ties, and calf-length spats
The Peacock Girl by VeysyIllustration showing a red-haired woman wearing a flamboyant outfit of corset, star embellished skirt and billowing sleeves, with yellow and blue striped bloomers visible underneath
A man and woman of Tunis, Algiers or TripoliA man and woman of Tunis, Tunisia - Algiers, Algeria or Tripoli, Libya. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century
Music cover for I Want To Be A Bloomer! Sung by Miss Rebecca Isaacs, words by Henry Abrahams, music by W H Montgomery. A young lady is depicted
Music cover for The Promenade and At Home Polkas, depicting two young ladies on the right about to go out for a walk, in wide-brimmed straw hats and bloomers
Terrified by modern female fashionThe Harem Skar em!! Not in those trousers! A lady in the latest fashion, based on the costume of the Turkish Harem - causes men to flee from her path in surprise
Turkish Girl - MoorishA La Mauresque - " Lets go Moorish!"
Albanian Dancer in traditional costume
Servants Washing LineThe intimate apparel of the female servants of the Edwardian Country House blows in a good drying wind out side the attic room window
Cycling Costume 1895A young woman wearing a bicycle suit the new rational cycling oufit with jacket and knee-length bloomers, is mocked by her friend
Bloomerism in 1852THE PROGRESS OF BLOOMERISM The new fad spreads and is adopted by ladies of all ages
Bloomers 1850Bloomerism - an American custom
Swimmers at HastingsTwo girls stand on a seaweed- covered rock at low tide at Hastings, showing off their two-piece bathing costumes which consist of shorts or bloomers & tunics
Girl Mounts her BikeA sporty young Frenchwoman mounts her bicycle - a mans model, with crossbar : she is wearing a practical and picturesque divided skirt
Swimwear / Der Bazar 1869A selection of two-piece bathing costumes probably composed of a combination with long trouser legs & an over-skirt or tunic
Swimwear / Graphic / 1883Swimwear worn at a ladies swimming competiton include two-piece costumes with knickerbockers or trousers & a blouse with sailor collar or with gathers & a Swiss belt
Swimwear Photo by NeameA two-piece bathing costume with bloomers or knickers & a belted tunic with a sailor collar & flat braid trim
English Sailor C. 1598An English sailor. Date: circa 1598
New Woman / EqualityThe New Woman
Bloomers / LeechA girl wearing bloomers is the centre of attention
Amelia Bloomer / PolkaAMELIA BLOOMER American reformer who wore full trousers for women now known as bloomers
