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Bikes and Bloomers Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear
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KAT, JungnickelLIBERTY, Dent

The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives – cycle wear. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were vastly inappropriate, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedal…

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