Bloomers
What is a bloomer?
Bloomers are knee-length or ankle length pants that were breathed by the quarters pants of countries like Syria. They were also in part breathed by women’s undergarments called pantalettes, or sometimes just pants or drawers that were had on underneath petticoats by individual women and by young girls. A bloomer is a word which has been applied to various types of divided women’s garments for the lower body at various times. Bloomers were an attempt to provide “decent” pants options for women who wanted the ability to engage in more rigorous activities where skirts might be a hindrance.
Creator Paul Poiret attempted to contribute bloomers into fashion in the former 20th century, but he was merely a bit too early in his design. The style didn’t catch on for daily wear. By the late 1920s, women did start to wear pants with relative regularity and even longer shorts had begun to make their way into women’s fashions. Bloomers then simply became an undergarment worn under skirts, or perhaps even worn under pants. Additionally, girls participating in school athletic programs often wore bloomers that buckled under the knee, and this tradition would continue into the 1940s and 1950s in schools, where shorts were thought indecent.
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