Question

Why was the movement for rational dress reform not successfull?

Answer 1

1) Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, an American was the first dress reformer to launch loose tunics worn over ankle – length trousers. The trousers were known as ‘bloomers’, ‘rationals’, etc.
2) The Rational Dress society was started in England in 1881 but did not achieve significant results. It was the First World War that brought about radical changes in women’s clothing.
3) The reformers did not immediately succeed in changing social values. They had to face ridicule and hostility.
4) Conservatives everywhere opposed change as they lamented that women who gave up traditional norms of dressing no longer looked beautiful and lost their feminity and grace