‘Bloomers’ and the British World: Dress Reform in Transatlantic and Antipodean Print Culture, 1851–1950

@article{Stevenson2017BloomersAT,
  title={‘Bloomers’ and the British World: Dress Reform in Transatlantic and Antipodean Print Culture, 1851–1950},
  author={Ana Stevenson},
  journal={Cultural and Social History},
  year={2017},
  volume={14},
  pages={621 - 646}
}
  • A. Stevenson
  • Published 12 October 2017
  • History
  • Cultural and Social History
Abstract The ‘bloomers’ are rarely considered beyond their 1851 origins in the United States and subsequent appearance in Britain. This article expands dress reform scholarship by analysing print culture elsewhere in the British world, specifically Australia and New Zealand. The colonial press manufactured controversy over this fashion – a perceived transgression of gender norms – even though antipodean women rarely sported the outfit. This article focuses on the dress reform lectures and… 
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