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There were many reasons different people chose to resist the fashions of the 19th Century and adopt reform clothing.  Choose from the groups below and write a short report on the ideology of their part in the movement.

General Information about Dress Reform

• The Rational Dress Movement
• Fashion and Dress Reform
• Plates from the Catalogue of Exhibits and Gazette of the Rational Dress Association 1883
• Victorian dress reform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Rational Dress Reform, Victorian Bloomers and Cycling Costumes
• Anti-Fashion, or Victorian Attempts at Reform of Male and Female Dress
• Essays - Unstable Equilibrium - Men's Dress Reform
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Fashion's slaves (1892 Dress Reform Tract, illustrated)
• WOMAN'S SLAVERY TO FASHION; SHE ADMIRES IDEAL GARMENTS, BUT WILL NOT W... - Article Preview - The New York Times 1894 dress reform
• The Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement, Abstract
  • The Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement, Document List (Large numbers of online texts and pictures of the 1840's-1850's movement)
• The Impact of Dress Reform on Fashion
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Dress, and how to improve it - 1894 (Includes many photos of female Dress reform garments)
• Internet Archive: Free Download: What dress makes of us 1897
• Punch 1883 Poem on Rational Dress - Google Book Search
• The Corset Controversy and Feminine Identity in the Late Victorian Era
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Notes on civil costume in England from the conquest to the regency. As exemplified in the International Health Exhibition, South Kensington 1884
• Ohio State University - RATIONAL FASHION - Exhibit chronicles dress reform movement 
• Official Catalogue International Health Exhibition 1884 - Google Book Search
• VintageConnectionArchives--Dress1888.(reform)
• Vignettes of Fashion: I.1889 Rivalry in Teagowns - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
• Anti-Fashion, or Victorian Attempts at Reform of Male and Female Dress
• Theory of the Leisure Class - Chapter One
  • Theory of the Leisure Class - Chapter Seven - Dress as an Expression of Pecuniary Culture
• Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art

Aesthetes  

• Oscar Wilde on Fashion and Dress Reform 1888-90

  • Slaves of Fashion by Oscar Wilde
  • Woman's Dress by Oscar Wilde
  • More Radical Ideas on Dress Reform by Oscar Wilde
  • Costume by Oscar Wilde
• Swedish Artistic Reform Dress on English Model
• The Aesthetics
• Style Guide Object Page: Aesthetic Dress
• steampunk fashion - pre-Raphaelite dresses
• Anti-Fashion, or Victorian Attempts at Reform of Male and Female Dress
• Pre-Raphaelite Ideals and Artistic Dress
• The Beautiful Necessity: Artistic Dress
• The Beautiful Necessity: More Aesthetic Dresses
• The Beautiful Necessity: Artistic / Aesthetic Dresses Old and New
• The Beautiful Necessity Artistic & Aesthetic Blog
• Artistic Dress Museum Resources FIDM
• Aesthetic Dress in the 19th Century - Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Image - V&A - 1893-4 Liberty Artistic Dress
• Dress Reform and Copyright, a speech by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) actually early 20th Century, but in the same line...
• The Aesthetics
• Aesthetic Dress Inspirations
• The Aesthetics
• The Aesthetics Fashion History
• Artistic Dress movement
• The Aesthetic Dress Movement, Part I
• Artistic Dress movement Summary
• 1880s Aesthetic Dress
• Art in Ornament and Dress -1877- Google Book Search
• Women Designers of Aesthetic Dress
• Kambriel: The Aesthetic Dress of the Pre-Raphaelites
• Vintage Textile: Edwardian Clothing-#1526 Lace Teagown
• Aesthetic Dress
• Arts and Crafts movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Pandora's Page: Dress Reform and The Belle Epoque
• Little Lord Fauntleroy Suits
• Sup's Oscar Wilde Page
• Art as applied to dress, with special reference to Harmonious Coloring 1885... - Google Book Search
• Little Lord Fauntleroy and his Dad - Sally Queen & Associates
• Bohemian Fashion
• Tea Gowns for Distinction and Comfort, 1870-1920
• Aesthetic Dress Inspirations
• Whistler, Women, and Fashion - New York Art Review

• The influential Ancient Greek Female Costume, by J.Moyr Smith, 1882.

• The World of Oscar Wilde by David Claudon
• Wild and waxy Dutch Art Nouveau artistic dress Art Journal Find Articles at BNET

Fashionable Anti-Dress Reform Advocates

• The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility (1856)

• Fashion and Dress Reform
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Feminists

• Elizabeth Smith Miller on Dress Reform Recollections of the 1850's written in later years
• Elizabeth Smith Miller: bloomers
• The Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement, Document List
• Elizabeth Smith Miller
• Amelia Bloomer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The World's Congress of Representative Women 1894 Article on Dress Reform - Google Book Search
• Das Zukunftskleid der Frau Zur ..1903. - Google Book Search 1903 German Anti-Corset Pro- Dress Reform Book
• The Debate Over Women's Clothing:
  • Lady-like or Rational Dress
• Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
• The Village Voice: NY Mirror: Petticoat Junction The struggle for dress reform

• Biographical History of Pottawattmie Co., IA - Amelia BLOOMER

Dr. Mary Walker

• Image of Dr Mary Walker in the American Reform Dress
• HIT the Autobiography and reflections of Dr. Mary Walker: CHAPTER II Dress Reform 1871
  •  Part 2
• About Mary Edwards Walker
• Unmasked by Mary Edwards Walker, MD Chapter 10 The Social Evil (On Dress) 1878
  •  Part 2  
• Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War Doctor

Health Reformers

• Fashionable Dress The Health Reformer, March 1, 1874
• Health Visions from Dr. Jackson?
• 'Die Normalkleidung'. The rational clothing system as a protection to health, a series of... By Gustav Jaeger 1882 - Google Book Search
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Selections from essays on health culture and the sanitary woolen system 1886 Dr. Jaeger
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Health-culture; by Dr Gustav Jaeger 1907 (Guru of the "Wooleners" Health dress reform group)
• The Sanitary Record 1883 Article on Hygenic Dress Exhibit - Google Book Search
• Health and beauty - or, Corsets and clothing, constructed in accordance with the physiological... By Roxey Ann Caplin 1864 -
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Fashion in deformity : as illustrated in the customs of barbarous and civilized races, 1882
• The Sanitary Record 1881 Article on Dress Reform - Google Book Search
• To the Reform Dress Association : Peterboro, May 18th 1857.
• The Vintage Connection
  • Annie Jenness Miller, Dress Reform

Religion 

• Excessive Adornment in Dress [from the Free Presbyterian Magazine, January, 1897]
• Dress and Worldly Compliance, Addressed to the Members of the Society of Friends By Joseph Pike 1872 - Google Book Search

Seventh Day Adventist Ellen White

• Choice Thoughts on Dress From the Writings of Mrs. E. G. White.
• The Dress Reform 1868 by Ellen White

• Health Visions from Dr. Jackson?
• Seventh-day Adventists and the Reform Dress
• Dress Reform & 7th Day Adventists
• The Life of Ellen White by D.M. Canright - The Reform Dress
• Biography WHITE, ELLEN GOULD (HARMON) (1827–1915)
• Walla Walla College RELH457- More Ellen G White & Dress Reform Info)

Pioneers & Athletes

• Early Sports Fashion
• Women and Bicycles - Fashion for the Active Woman, 1894 Style
• Rational Dress Reform, Victorian Bloomers and Cycling Costumes
• Bloomers and Bicycles: www.jolique.com
• The Spectacular Female Body: Dress, Fashion and Modernity in Victorian Women's Magazines
  •   Bloomers & Reform
  •  Bicycles
• Victorian fashion and the growth of sporting activities, 1850-1900
• Picturing Women: An exhibition about how women are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative.
  • Picturing Women: Reform & Bicycle Dress

Other:

• Le pantalon féminin un chapitre inédit de. l'historie du costume.. - Google Book Search
• Fashion in deformity, as illustrated in the... - Google Book Search

Write a short digest outlining the main arguments put forth by the group you chose, and post it on the Message Board by the weekend .

Return to this week's lesson.

Theatre and Fashion : Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes

Defining Dress : Dress As Object, Meaning and Identity (Studies in Design and Material Culture)