You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! Shana Corey, Chesley McLaren (I

Would you DARE to bare your underwear? If you like CLOTHES and people with the courage to SKIRT conventions and address injustice, Amelia Bloomer and her unFITTING ideas will charm the PANTS off you!Amelia Bloomer, a rebellious reformer and early women’s rights activist, invented bloomers (baggy pantaloons worn beneath a short skirt), thus liberating women from the dangerous and oppressive clothing of the mid-nineteenth century. Here is her story, told in buoyant, witty text and beautiful, high styled-illustrations.