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.
In 1889, Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a member of the Rational Dress Society, made a bold move at a gathering of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she inserted an unplanned topic related to her society's goals into the meeting's schedule.