An 1895 skirt design let women pull hidden strings to shorten it for cycling. This is a working reconstruction.
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Im_Just_A_Tourist
Le_Botmes
Surely this will lead to hysterics, and women will abandon their husbands to take up this
DISMAL GADGET
SoberAlternative
Bwahahahaha. Let’s hope those bicycle things don’t impair their virginity😂🤣‼️
TesseractToo
I shall angrily pull the drawstring on my skirts and begone on my velocipede and I won't be back until tea time! Good day to you, sir!
capt_ph03nix
Missing_Crouton
I assume back then some guy immediately yelled, "I can see that trollops shins, burn her!"
ri89rc20
Oh gadzooks!!! The hussies showing their calves, Society shall certainly fall!
moving0target
That's showing a lot of leg!
SchrodingersMinou
I would be interested in a pattern for this
TesseractToo
I found this if it helps https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2018/apr/16/the-ingenious-cyclewear-victorian-women-invented-to-navigate-social-mores
SchrodingersMinou
Thanks! It links to free patterns here: https://bikesandbloomers.com/
TesseractToo
Yay! :D
Insomniac_80
Also bikes for women are shaped differently than bikes for men, because women might want to bike in skirts!
onthebusfornow
I want one lol
dontipitova9
Convirt-a-skirt
batkave
Took that long to make it because they didn't want women riding bikes using the "their uterus will fall out"
Quirky_Number4460
This is so cool!
Traditional_Isopod80
Interesting
Flying-Citrus356
Kirdled!
Great-Step9819
Cycling.. prob some other good uses
So kind of like a convertible skirt short like the skorts back in the day? Those skirt short things back in the late 90s
whatupmyknitta 12 points · 22h ago
I used to love skorts!
law_of_the_jungle_00 5 points · 18h ago
Exactly like skorts! full circle moment, we got them skorts