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Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers , her name became associated with it because of her early and strong advocacy.
Amelia Bloomer did not want to see the paper die, so she took on responsibility for editing and publishing the paper. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Bloomer's initial interest was not in women's rights, but in temperance, and this topic featured prominently in its early issues, even after the paper detached from the Temperance Society. [ 3 ]
In a reversal of gender roles, a "bloomer" asks her fiancé's shocked father for consent to marry his son: satirical cartoon from 1852. In February 1851, Elizabeth Smith Miller of Peterboro, New York, wore the "Turkish dress" [6] to the Seneca Falls, New York, home of Amelia Bloomer and her temperance journal, The Lily. The next month, Bloomer ...
Amelia Bloomer herself dropped the fashion in 1859, saying that a new invention, the crinoline, was a sufficient reform and that she could return to conventional dress. The bloomer costume died—temporarily. It was to return much later (in a different form), as a women's athletic costume in the 1890s and early 1900s.
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Reformed Amelia Bloomer said, "When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off". [16] American women who made important contributions to the corset reform movement included Amelia Bloomer and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker. In the United Kingdom, notable figures in the movement included Constance Lloyd, wife of Oscar Wilde. [17]
Fans are swooning over Amelia Dimoldenberg and Harris Dickinson after watching their "Chicken Shop Date" interview that was filled with laughter.
The family of Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy are speaking out after the Sicily yacht tragedy.. Bloomer and his wife were among the 22 passengers on the ...