Bloomers (clothing)

Bloomers are very loose-fitting and summarized at the ankles women tops trousers.

They are part of the Amelia Bloomer Bloomer named after costume, which consisted of a worn without a corset, slim-fitting top, a pleated, tight fitting below the knee skirt, and worn underneath pants. Amelia Bloomer was an American women's rights activist, as a contribution to the reform of women's clothing propagated them from their first Turkish costume or Turkish trousers called clothes from 1851.

The Bloomer Costume aroused great interest among the representatives of women's rights, but found little practical acceptance (essentially only as a part of the female sportswear, especially when cycling ) and the more scorn and ridicule. The signature of a contemporary cartoon reads:

Bloomers were up to the present have repeatedly been cited in fashion, so as Victorian attributes in Japanese Lolita fashion or Helena Bonham Carter's Bloomin ' Bloomers or with varying degrees of leg room as so-called harem pants.

Play a certain role Bloomers as fetish clothing, as John Willie devoted in the book edited by him Bizarre magazine over the years the Bloomers repeatedly articles and pictures.

Suffragette Lucy Stone 1853

Emancipated women smokers on a cigar box 1890

Cyclist in Bloomers 1897

Bloomers -bearing females by the wall bars in 1899

Japan

In Japan Bloomers were introduced as girls clothes when school sports by Inokuchi akuri in 1903 that had these met while studying in Northampton and Boston. Over time, these were only radically reduced to the thigh pad and then gets rid of even their Pluderform. Since the 90s, these, Buruma (Japaneseブルマ) or were Buruma (ブルマー) above garments, replaced with sports pants. Buruma are next due to their association with schoolgirl fetish clothing also.