In 1889, a member of the Rational Dress Society, Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, staged a coup at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Newcastle upon Tyne, when she arranged an impromptu addition to the programme on the subject of rational dress.
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a member of the Rational Dress Society, took bold action in 1889 by seizing control of a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Newcastle upon Tyne and inserting an impromptu discussion on rational dress into the program.