Women in Trouser Archives - Downloads

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The Women in Trousers Archives  is a Visual Archive collection of digital images that together tell a story about women in trousers as a history of social, cultural and political change.

Visual Archive brings together images of bloomers, knickerbockers, culottes and tells the story of trouser-wearing women through an online gallery of digital images spanning more than a century.

It offers a visual account of the complex and sometimes contradictory meanings assigned to and by trouser-wearing women in public space. Images have been drawn from a range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, photographs, illustrations, and drawings. While trousers and other bifurcated garments provide its primary focus, the archive is also home to images that illuminate more generally the history of women and dress reform in Britain, Europe and America.

The establishment of this website was by Michael Michael John Goodman. Please check the copyright information on the website before you use any of the images. 

T. A. S Fraser, ‘The Women’s Royal Naval Service during the Second World War’

The National Cycle Show in The Graphic,

Mars Vignerot-Rougeron, ‘Women in Bathing Suits’, 189

Til next time

Julie