Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman

摘要

In far more detail than any other published so far, this book examines the development of trousered dress for women in Britain with emphasis on the 1851-1910 period. Journalist Don Chapman uses press reports, archives, letters, and genealogy sources to track both the actuality of the many campaigns led by women to promote bifurcated dress for cycling and walking and also offers details of the period reactions to them.