When Women First Started Wearing Pants

amandainvermont

amandainvermont

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I came across THIS at a web site called "The Public Domain Review." A 1903 Special Edition of Vanity Fair - "Bifurcated Girls."

These ‘risque’ pictures of women in trousers are a strange precursor to a time when women would don trousers, not for men’s titillation (as it seems here), but as a practical necessity when many took over ‘men’s jobs’ during WW1 and WW2, and later simply because they wanted to.

My Dad was born in 1901 and I didn't wear a pair of pants until the end of high school.

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Bifurcated means to divide into two branches or forks. I don't think the word "gay" had the same meaning in this 1903 photo as it does today. It's probably more a carryover from "The Gay '90's" - however the photos are really fun. I wonder if they were indeed for "men's titillation" as Amanda quoted. Thanks for sharing them, Amanda.

My mother dressed me in overalls a lot when I went to "nursery school" at a little under 4 years of age. You'll have no trouble picking me out - LOL! (Although I see another little girl is wearing "pants" - too." I found some photos of my mother in "slacks" in the '50's and I'm sure she wore them earlier but not the way they are worn today. Today it's rare to see women wearing skirts or dresses...

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