Victory for the Vote
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Doris Weatherford. Victory for the Vote
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Victory for the Vote
The Fight for Women’s Suffrage
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Although she had not intended to create this “furor,” Bloomer wore the style for “some six or eight years.” That she stuck with it longer than Stanton is probably due to the fact that the Bloomers moved from Seneca Falls to Iowa in 1853. Practicality always has priority over fashion in frontier situations, and it therefore was not surprising that among those Stanton listed as long-term bloomer wearers were “many farmers’ wives.”
Other women’s rights leaders who experimented with the costume included Lucy Stone, the Grimké sisters, and Susan B. Anthony. For the latter women, the change was an especially daring one from the modest Quaker dress of their youth, but for all women, wearing the new style meant inviting controversy and worse. Preachers, in Gerrit Smith’s words, ran “to the Bible, not to learn the truth, but to make the Bible the minister to folly” in preaching against the garment. Using scripture such as “male and female He created them,” clergymen argued that it was sinful for a woman to dress like a man. Any outing in the new clothes became a trial. “People would stare,” Stanton said. “Some men and women make rude remarks; boys follow in crowds, or shout from behind fences.”
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