The bloomer costume – Antique Print
![The bloomer costume, [New York] : N. Currier, 1851. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ae/aebda9ded1c7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The bloomer costume, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The bloomer costume, loose trousers worn beneath a short skirt, takes its name from Amelia Bloomer, who promoted the style in her temperance and women's rights newspaper, *The Lily*, in the late 1840s. Nathaniel Currier's 1851 lithograph turns the garment into a comic spectacle, the kind of cheap, widely sold print that reached a broad public. Such prints often used the costume to mock women who wanted more freedom of movement and dress, so the image says as much about public attitudes as about fashion. Viewers today can read it as a record of how quickly a reform idea became a target for ridicule.
| Created / published | [New York] : N. Currier, 1851. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0641. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,087 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109272 |
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