Bloomers Collection (page 2)

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

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 Veysy
Illustration 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 Tripoli
A 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 fashion
The 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 - Moorish
A La Mauresque - " Lets go Moorish!"

Albanian Dancer in traditional costume

Servants Washing Line
The 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 1895
A young woman wearing a bicycle suit the new rational cycling oufit with jacket and knee-length bloomers, is mocked by her friend

Bloomerism in 1852
THE PROGRESS OF BLOOMERISM The new fad spreads and is adopted by ladies of all ages

Bloomers 1850
Bloomerism - an American custom

Swimmers at Hastings
Two 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 Bike
A sporty young Frenchwoman mounts her bicycle - a mans model, with crossbar : she is wearing a practical and picturesque divided skirt

Swimwear / Der Bazar 1869
A selection of two-piece bathing costumes probably composed of a combination with long trouser legs & an over-skirt or tunic

Swimwear / Graphic / 1883
Swimwear 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 Neame
A two-piece bathing costume with bloomers or knickers & a belted tunic with a sailor collar & flat braid trim

English Sailor C. 1598
An English sailor. Date: circa 1598

New Woman / Equality
The New Woman

Bloomers / Leech
A girl wearing bloomers is the centre of attention

Amelia Bloomer / Polka
AMELIA BLOOMER American reformer who wore full trousers for women now known as bloomers

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