Bloomers

From: A New Dictionary of Eponyms | Date: 1997| Author: Morton S. Freeman | Copyright information

Bloomers Bloomers were designed, in 1850, by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, who also was the first to wear them. But this garment got its biggest impetus and its name from Amelia Bloomer, who dressed frequently in this attire and was its most consistent advocate.

Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894), born Amelia Jenks in Homer, New York, was the editor of a journal in Seneca, New York, titled The Lily, the house organ o...

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`Late Bloomers' love story is sincere, but simplistic
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Wenatchee Business Journal ; Then: When Janine Davis opened Bloomers Flower Shop in Mission Square at 202 ... shop. Penny Keene, the original owner of Bloomers in Leavenworth, was one of the people ... Another was Ken Neddo, who had bought Bloomers from Keene. Davis said when the Leavenworth ...
BLOOMERS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ; ... Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-22-1995 BLOOMERS Date: 03-22-1995, Wednesday Section ... Helen Burdon Price's acrylic painting "Bloomers," which appropriately reminds us that ... Helen Burdon Price's acrylic painting "Bloomers," which appropriately reminds us that ...