Amelia Bloomer was born May 27, 1818 in Homer, New York and she never received much schooling, only two years. Her husband, Dexter Bloomer, wanted her to write for his newspaper, Seneca Falls County Courier. She finally did and doing so wrote about women’s rights. Even though she was at the Seneca Falls Convention she never signed the Declaration of Sentiments, but there she met Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. With them she started a newspaper by herself, The Lily, where she wrote about, temperance, marriage law reform, women’s suffrage and higher education for women. She started writin
g about women’s clothing in 1851, after her newspaper had great success. She wrote that instead of the tight laced corsets with layers of petticoats and long dresses women should wear loose tops with shorter dresses and pantaloons. This clothing was inspired by the women who lived in the New Harmony community in the 1820s. Some people believed that what she wore was very unladylike and inappropriate. She gave the bloomers their name though, she wasn’t the first to wear them but because she wore them so much they became associated with her. Most feminists had dropped the idea of wearing bloomers because they thought that fighting for women’s rights they wouldn’t be taken seriously in this so called “inappropriate” clothing.
g about women’s clothing in 1851, after her newspaper had great success. She wrote that instead of the tight laced corsets with layers of petticoats and long dresses women should wear loose tops with shorter dresses and pantaloons. This clothing was inspired by the women who lived in the New Harmony community in the 1820s. Some people believed that what she wore was very unladylike and inappropriate. She gave the bloomers their name though, she wasn’t the first to wear them but because she wore them so much they became associated with her. Most feminists had dropped the idea of wearing bloomers because they thought that fighting for women’s rights they wouldn’t be taken seriously in this so called “inappropriate” clothing.Amelia Bloomer. Jessica Paige Kerley, 2001. Web. 11 Feb. 2010. http://www2.kenyon.edu/Khistory/frontier/ameliabloomer.htm.
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