Although fashion did not embrace the look of trousers on the female form until the late 20th century, history saw working women wearing them a hundred years prior.
From Victorian coal miners who rolled up their skirts around their waist to reveal soot-covered pants underneath to today’s terrible backlash of factory-torn denim, spandex jeggings, and bedazzled bums, women’s pants have undergone quite a transformation.
Let’s take a look at the early fashion of women’s pants from the festooned Victorian era right on through to the ultra glamorous 1930s.
(via A n j o u)
From Victorian coal miners who rolled up their skirts around their waist to reveal soot-covered pants underneath to today’s terrible backlash of factory-torn denim, spandex jeggings, and bedazzled bums, women’s pants have undergone quite a transformation.
Let’s take a look at the early fashion of women’s pants from the festooned Victorian era right on through to the ultra glamorous 1930s.
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| Victorian era |
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| 1896 |
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| Edwardian era |
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| 1920s |
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| 1920s |
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| 1926 |
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| Veronica Lake. 1930s. |
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| Harpers Bazaar, December 1939. |
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| Ethel Waters. 1920s. |
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| c.1890 |
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| Dr. Mary Walker, 1866. |
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| c.1870 |
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| 1880s |
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| 1900s |
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| 1908 |
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| c.1900 |
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| Calamity Jane, c.1895. |
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| c.1906 |
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| 1896 |
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| Cowgirl, 1915. |
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| 1860s |
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| c.1900 |
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| c.1900s |
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| c.1900s |
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| c.1910 |
(via A n j o u)
