Woman’s Cycling Suit, 1894

Presented as part of a Master of Fine Arts thesis
Thesis title: Beauty, Brains and Bloomers:
Fashion and Reform, 1850-1910
Boston University School of Theater (2005)

Silk/linen blend woman's cycling costume
with short tailored jacket and bloomers

This suit is based on research into the influence
of social reformers on fashions of the late
nineteenth century. It is a theatrical reproduction
of a suit advertised in Harper's Bazaar in 1894.