Southport, CT - Did Amelia Bloomer start the Victorian movement toward less restrictive clothing? Or was it concern over the harmful tight lacing of the corset that finally changed things? Who and what is really to be given credit for the rapid transformation of fashion in the early 1900s? Throw out everything you thought about the evolution of women’s clothing and join Pequot Library online for an evening of extreme fashions, opinions about modesty that turned into heated controversies, and a media that refused to let women be.
For more information and registration go to: https://www.pequotlibrary.org/event/the-dress-reform-movement-who-what-when-and-why/
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