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My dress was so tightly wound around the crank bracket that I could not get up until I got free. Image credit: Teara) The correct clothes for cycling created a heated debate from Britain to New Zealand with female revolutionaries campaigning for rational dress, aka clothing it was possible to move in. Bloomers were so controversial that stories about them read like a parody to our modern eyes, with newspapers overbrimming with pearl-clutching tales of fiances dumping their dearly betrothed over their unladylike bloomers and one incident of a dentist being sued by a bloomer wearing woman refused treatment. Although women staunchly clung to their right to knickerbocker and ride, it took a literal war (WW1 to be precise) to begin to change attitudes to women cycling in shorts. 1920s and 1930s Image credit: Vintage Dancer The 1920s saw an increase in women wearing shorts, including Bermuda shorts and, later in the 30s, an even more eyebrow raising short short

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