Sparky
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>>Particularly troubling to some men was the advent of bloomers, billowing pants that allowed women to ride more comfortably than long skirts. In Norwich, N.Y., a group of young men vowed not to associate with women who wore bloomers and tried unsuccessfully to organize their movement into a “national anti-bloomer brigade.”
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>>In Chicago, entrepreneurs trying to cash in on the craze held dances where both men and women were required to wear cycling clothes. The city threw a wrench in the spokes, passing an ordinance decreeing that “any woman who would wear bloomers while dancing in public was to be treated as a common prostitute.”
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