In the 1850s, many women rebelled against the restrictive fashion of full, dragging, weighted skirts by adopting what was called first “Turkish dress” and finally became known as the “Bloomer dress” — ...

Sandeep Salter may very well be one of Brooklyn’s most stylish women. If you’re lucky enough to have frequented her homeware-cum-houseware store Salter House, you may have observed this for yourself.

It's hard to imagine how the invention of bloomers could be a momentous event in women's history. But when a group of 19th-century suffragists decided to shed the heavy floor-length draperies known as ...