Bloomer, Amelia Jenks
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLOOMER, AMELIA JENKS 1818 94, American reformer, b. Homer, N.Y. She was editor...wore it in her lecture work, it became universally known as the Bloomer costume, or bloomers. See biography by her husband, D. C. Bloomer (1895); C. N. Gattey...