Bikes and Bloomers
An illustrated history of the evolution of British women''s cycle wear.
The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women''s liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women''s cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist inve...
An illustrated history of the evolution of British women''s cycle wear.
The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women''s liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women''s cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist inve...
