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Corey, Shana.
YOU FORGOT YOUR SKIRT, AMELIA BLOOMER! : A VERY IMPROPER STORY
New York : Scholastic, 2000.
IL K-3, RL 3.5
ISBN 0439078199
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 Would you dare to bare your underwear?  Girls and women haven't always worn blue jeans.  About 150 years ago, they wore corsets so tight they could hardly breathe and skirts so long and full they got stuck in doorways.
But Amelia Bloomer changed all that.  She designed and wore pantaloons under her shortened skirt.  The townspeople were shocked when they saw her on the street in her new clothes.  What do you suppose they said?  (Paula Gannaway, paula.gannaway@lcu.edu, librarian)
SUBJECTS:     Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 1818-1894.
                        Feminists.
                        Women -- Biography.
                        Clothing and dress -- History.
                        Sex role.
                        Women's rights.

 
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