(376)Ĭhildren of both sexes wore no clothes from birth until puberty and some occupations, as Strudwick notes, continued this practice. Female millers, bakers, and harvest workers are often depicted in a long wraparound skirt but with the upper part of the body bared. Shepherds, ferrymen, and fishermen mainly made do with a simple leather sash from which hung a curtain of reeds many also worked completely naked, at least until the Middle Kingdom - during this time it became rare to see an unclothed worker. Before the development of linen, people wore clothes made of animal hide or woven papyrus reeds. Lower-class women's skirts, as noted, were from the waist to the knees without a top. The upper-class women's dresses sometimes began below the breasts and went to the ankles. Women's fashions which bared the breasts were not a matter of concern. Jennifer Brown (Jaunting Jen) (CC BY-NC-SA) Anthony to take up the cause of the women's suffrage movement and Anthony, of course, is now synonymous with women's rights. It was Lucy Stone who would encourage Susan B. The Women's Suffrage Movement had only just met to issue their Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in 1848 CE at Seneca Falls, NY, and Bloomer's advocacy of the new style was embraced by one of the pivotal figures of the movement, Lucy Stone, who wore the pants during her lectures on women's rights. These 'Turkish' pants (which came to be known as 'bloomers') emancipated women from the constraints of fashion, allowing them freedom of movement, and became one of the symbols of the new women's suffrage movement. At the time of Bloomer's announcement, upper-class women were wearing dresses comprised of as many as 16 petticoats, which were quite heavy, and those of the lower classes were almost equally constrained. This "Turkish dress" was a pair of light-weight pants worn under a dress which dispensed with the heavy petticoats and undergarments which constituted women's fashion. In 1851 CE, a woman named Amelia Bloomer in the United States shocked the establishment by announcing in her publication The Lily that she had adopted the "Turkish Dress" for daily wear and, further, provided readers with instructions to make their own.
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