February 2012
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History's Most Shocking Trends: Bloomers &...
I had a lot of fun recently being interviewed by journalist Denise Winterman for her BBC News piece, “Fashion: History’s Most Shocking Styles.”
Although there are any number of surprising trends to consider, I talked about the Bloomer Suit of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. To women of the time, bloomers seemed like a rational alternative to cumbersome skirts, society was far...
