 1851 caricature of fashion bloomers as being similar to Turkish attire
 An example of late 19th-century / Edwardian athletic bloomers: the Smith College class of 1902 basketball team
 1890s caricature of athletic bloomers as leading women to adopt masculine habits Bloomers is a word which has been applied to several types of divided women's garments for the lower body at various times. Image File history File links Bloomer. ...
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Image File history File links Size of this preview: 413 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (970 × 1408 pixel, file size: 265 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Halloo! Turks in Gotham!, an 1851 caricature print, satirizing the feminist Bloomer costume (short skirts worn over ankle-length harem pants) as being...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 413 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (970 × 1408 pixel, file size: 265 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Halloo! Turks in Gotham!, an 1851 caricature print, satirizing the feminist Bloomer costume (short skirts worn over ankle-length harem pants) as being...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1065x608, 134 KB) Summary Smith College class of 1902 basketball team. ...
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Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest womens college in the United States []. Smith admits only female undergraduates, but admits both men and women as graduate students. ...
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Fashion bloomers (skirted)
The original bloomers were an article of women's clothing invented by Elizabeth Smith Miller but popularized by Amelia Bloomer in the early 1850s (hence the name, a shortening of "Bloomer suit"). They were like long baggy pants narrowing to a cuff at the ankles (worn below a skirt), intended to preserve Victorian decency while being less of a hindrance to women's activities than the long full skirts of the period (see Victorian dress reform). They were worn by a few women in the 1850s, but were widely ridiculed in the press, and failed to become commonly accepted (see 1850s in fashion). These early bloomers were partly an attempt to adapt young girls' short skirts and pantalettes to adult women's attire, and were partly influenced by middle-eastern clothing styles (or what was thought to be middle-eastern styles) — hence the name "Syrian costume".[1] Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818—December 30, 1894) was an American womens rights and temperance advocate. ...
During the middle and late Victorian period, various reformers proposed, designed, and wore clothing supposedly more rational and comfortable than the fashions of the time. ...
1859 fashion plate of both mens and womens daywear, with seabathing in background. ...
Girls costume showing linen pantalettes from Godeys Ladys Book 1855 Pantalettes are undergarments covering the legs worn by women, girls, and very young boys in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. ...
The word "bloomers" was sometimes used for the wearers of the garments, rather than the garments themselves.
In 1909, fashion designer Paul Poiret attempted to popularize harem pants worn below a long flaring tunic, but this attempted revival of fashion bloomers (under another name) did not catch on. Fashon Design by Paul Poiret, 1912 Paul Poiret (20 April 1879, Paris, France - 30 April 1944, Paris) was a fashion designer based in Paris before the First World War, during the Belle Epoque. ...
Athletic bloomers (unskirted) During the late 19th century, athletic bloomers (also known as "rationals" or "knickerbockers") were skirtless baggy knee-length trousers, fastened to the leg a little below the knees; at that time, they were worn by women in a few narrow contexts of athletic activity — such as bicycle-riding, gymnastics, and sports other than tennis — only (see 1890s in fashion). Bloomers were usually worn with stockings and after 1910 often with a sailor middy blouse. Bloomers became shorter by the late 1920's and when it started to become respectable for women to wear pants and shorts in a wider range of circumstances in the 1930s, styles imitating men's shorts were favored, and bloomers tended to become less common. However, baggy knee-length gym shorts fastened at or above the knees continued to be worn by girls in school physical education classes through to the 1950s in some areas. Fashion in the 1890s finally got rid of the bustle which had haunted womens fashion for 25 years. ...
Undergarments Women's baggy underpants fastened to just below or above the knee are also known as "bloomers" (or as "knickers" or "directoire knickers"). They were most popular in the 1910's and 1920's but continued to be worn by older women for several decades thereafter. Often the term "bloomers" has been used interchangeably with the pantalettes worn by women and girls in the mid 19th century and the open leg knee length drawers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Knickers is a word used to refer to two very different items of clothing. ...
The modern Japanese version of bloomers consist of the entire legs exposed and are pronounced burūmā (or burūmāsu) in Japanese. Many Westerners confuse Japanese bloomers with panties since their designs are almost the same in Japan, but bloomers are worn over underwear, are a bit thicker, and come in bold colors.
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