Bikes and Bloomers : : Victorian women investors and their extraordinary cycle wear / / Katrina Jungnickel.

• VerfasserIn: Jungnickel, Katrina,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Goldsmiths Press,, 2020.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 pages)

An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear. The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives-cycle wear. This illustrated account...

Table of Contents

• Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Part I; Introduction: Making, Wearing and Inventing Futures; Outline of the Book; 1 'One Wants Nerves of Iron': Cycling in Victorian Britain; Men, Cycling and Cycle Wear; The 'Dress Problem'; Why Study Clothing?; 2 From the Victorian Lady to the Lady Cyclist; The 'New Woman' and Changing Social Fabric; The Construction of the Lady Cyclist; The Physical Reality of Cycling in Ordinary Dress; The Social Dangers of Cycle Wear; Creating the Conditions for Invention. 3 Inventing Solutions to the 'Dress Problem'Bicycle Design Strategies; Cycle Wear Strategies; Rational Dress; Strategies of Concealment; Site-Specific Cycle Wear; Country-Specific Cycle Wear; Making (and Patenting) Your Own Cycle Wear; 4 The 1890s Patenting Boom and the Cycle Craze; Patent Reform and the Cycling Revolution; Women Inventors Fight to be Recognised; 5 Extraordinary Cycle Wear Patents; Themes in Patents; Device to Attach, Stiffen or Secure Skirt; Tailor Skirt to Fit Bike; Built-In Bifurcation; Bloomers, Breeches and Knickerbockers; Convertible Cycle Wear. Researching, Making and Wearing Convertible Cycle WearPart II; 6 Patent No. 17,145: Alice Bygrave and Her 'Bygrave Convertible Skirt'; The Inventor and Her Life; Commercialisation and Distribution; Interviewing the 'Bygrave Convertible Skirt'; 7 Patent No. 6794: Julia Gill and Her Convertible Cycling Semi- Skirt; The Inventor and Her Life; Ideas and Experimentation; New Cycle Wear Retail Experiences; Interviewing Julia's Convertible Cycling Semi-Skirt; 8 Patent No. 8766: Frances Henrietta Müller and Her Three-Piece Convertible Cycling Suit; The Inventor and Her Life. The Gender Politics of PocketsInterviewing Henrietta's Three-Piece Convertible Cycling Suit; 9 Patent No. 13,832: Mary and Sarah Pease and Their Convertible Cycling Skirt/ Cape; The Inventors and Their Lives; Tactics for Site-Specific Concealment; Visual Culture of Women's Cycling; Interviewing the Pease Sisters' Convertible Skirt./ Cape; 10 Patent No. 9605: Mary Ward and Her Convertible 'Hyde Park Safety Skirt'; The Inventor and Her Life; Promenading in the Parks; Interviewing Mary's Convertible 'Hyde Park Safety Skirt'; Part III. Conclusion: The Politics of Patenting (or How to Change the World One Garment at a Time)British Cycle Wear Patents 1890-1900; Notes; Bibliography; Figures; Index.