• Introduction
• Vulva Voicings I
• Vulva Voicings II
• Belly Briefing

text of hangtag:

What's the origin of Bloomers, a 19th century invention?

Elizabeth Smith Miller took the initiative: she designed roomy pantaloons to free women from the confining dress styles of the day. Then her cousin, suffragist Amelia Jenks Bloomer, popularized the new garments through her monthly newspaper, The Lily. They became known as "Bloomers."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others leading the struggle for women's rights made a point of wearing Bloomers. They put their Bloomers away, though, when the popular press obsessed about their underwear and ignored more substantial issues of women's emancipation.

The struggle for women's rights — especially reproductive rights — continues. Will Bloomers make a comeback in this 21st century? They make both a fashion statement and a political statement:

This is my garden.
This is my bloomin' body.

—adapted from The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your True Center for More Energy
Confidence, and Pleasure by Lisa Sarasohn (New World Library, 2006)