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Key facts
- Clothing type.name
- Bloomers
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- 1850s' fashion bloomers
- Clothing type.type
- Underwear
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Fashion bloomers (skirted)
- Bloomer craze of 1851
- Bloomers in London
- Women's rights
- Opposition to Bloomer dress
- Bloomers in the West
- Civil War nurses and the bloomer
- Bloomers and bicycles
- Athletic bloomers (unskirted)
- 19th and 20th centuries
- Bloomers in Japan
- Gallery of athletic bloomers
- Undergarments
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|170px|A pair of bloomers, 1981
Bloomers, also called the bloomer, the Turkish dress, the American dress, or simply reform dress, are divided women's garments for the lower body. They were developed in the 19th century as a healthful and comfortable alternative to the heavy, constricting dresses worn by American women. They take their name from their best-known advocate, the women's rights activist Amelia Bloomer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bloomers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.