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Amelia Bloomer was a woman who helped Women's Rights and who accomplished a lot for a woman back then. A woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton, her cousin, made the bloomer and they were for traveling purposes. Elizabeth and another woman, Susan Anthony, wore the bloomers for a short while but Amelia wore them for 8 years.

The woman had to wear big, heavy dresses. Sometimes the skirt part took 20-30 yards of material to make. The dresses wear very unhealthy in the 1850's. Tight laced corsets and layers of petticoats could wiegh over 10 pounds. Floor-length dresses were dragged on unpaved and unswept streets and it was hard for women to get through doors with those dresses on. A man named Joseph Paxton invented a machine to keep floors clean but he never used the machine because the womens dresses cleaned the floors for people. The bloomers were loose trousers gathered at the ankles with a short dress or skirt and a vest. Sometimes the outfit was called turkish pantaloons.

The lily was a news paper invented by Amelia Bloomer. The Lily was mostly for questions concerning Women's Rights. Amelia really didn't like the name the Lily but other people did. Amelia worked writing articles for the Lily for about 5 years.

Quotes by Amelia Bloomer "It is woman who that speaks though The Lily... Intemperance is the great foe to her peace and happiness. It is that above all that has made her home desolate and beggared her offspring... Surely, she has the right to wield her pen for its suppression. Surely, she may without throwing aside the modest refinements which so much become her sex, use her influence to lead her fellow mortals from the destroyer's path."

"Our counsel to every woman is, wear that pleases you best."

Amelia Bloomer was a small woman. She had dark hair but also lacking a sense of humor. She had serious pension and pleasant expression. She had just a few years of grammar school She was born in New York on May 27,1818. Amelia had 3 sisters and 2 brothers. Most woman would have not worked at a post office or made a newspaper but Amelia did all those jobs. Amelia Bloomer and her husband took a trip from Ohio to Council Bluffs Iowa. The trip took about 26 days. Amelia bloomer took her resting place in Council Bluffs on Decemerber 31, 1894