the Flats Hollow Sector # 12 - happy National Susan B. Anthony day issue
Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
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Image: portrait of Susan B. Anthony, Abolitionist
Famous for "the purse protest" -
(a) Feminists invented purses to shed the corsette. (b) Without those "breath-taking" undergarments, they could finally breathe. (c) These dresses contained numerous giant pockets, weighing down emergency movements.
This garment was used to constrict females, literally, physically, and socioeconomically.
These women, like the bra-burners who came after them, developed into the "Flappers" (like gulabi gang)
Whereas before women's self defence relied on sleight of hand, these days they could openly move against rape.
circa 1900s-1930s, the development of the first wave feminist fashion style(s).
pictured: 1920s random fashion model, long hair was not a defence concern, and bellbottoms radicalised the international markets.
This woman was ahead of her time, because pants didn't become "acceptable" until the 1980s.
Not only was Susan B. Anthony fighting to abolish slavery, yet risked her life in defensive clothing.
Susan B. Anthony was very passionate about her avant feminist clothing choices:
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling,” Miss Anthony said, leaning forward and laying a slender hand on my arm. “I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
Any "dress-wearer" knows the plights and struggles of suffering "the bicycle conundrum"
Susan B. Anthony continued:
(Bloomers, the feminist avant fashion style) “Are the proper thing for wheeling,” added Miss Anthony promptly. “It is as I have said — dress to suit the occasion. A woman doesn’t want skirts and flimsy lace to catch in the wheel. Safety, as well as modesty, demands bloomers or extremely short skirts. You know women only wear foolish articles of dress to please men’s eyes anyway.”
Here, you see the vast divergence in her press release: her compromise with a traditionalist audience.
Famous 1920s news magazine comic, Flapper Fanny:
"Wives Make a Number of Husbands Good Listeners"
(a Flapper shopping by herself)
"Nobody knows why some people insist on reading creepy ghost stories. It's a fright!"
I, for one, applaud the early 1920s bellbottoms proponents.
