You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer : : a Very Improper Story
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Youth level.
Amelia Bloomer, who does not behave the way nineteenth-century society tells her a proper lady should, introduces pantaloons to American women to save them from the discomfort of their heavy, tight dresses.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Funny submitted by jduffy12 on August 27, 2016, 2:27pm Funny story for kids
I would recommend submitted by cbrewster on August 8, 2018, 7:02pm Cute story about how bloomers came about. Teaches kids that it is okay to be different like Amelia who did not want to wear the impractical clothing for women of her day.
PUBLISHED
New York : Scholastic Press, 2000.
Year Published: 2000
Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 350
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0439078199 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
McLaren, Chesley.
SUBJECTS
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, -- 1818-1894.
Feminists -- Biography.
Clothing and dress -- History.
Sex role.
Women's rights.
Women -- Biography.