Bohemian style was not really until the First World War that "many working women ... embarked on a revolution in fashion that greatly reduced the weight and restrictions imposed on them by their clothing". Some women working in factories wore trousers and the brassiere (invented in 1889 by the feminist Herminie Cadolle and patented in America by Mary Phelps Jacob in 1914) began gradually to supersede the corset. In shipyards "trouser suits" (the term, "pantsuit" was adopted in America in the 1920s) were virtually essential to enable women to shin up and down ladders. Music hall artists also helped to push the
Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps after college. ▪ Husband—Austin Phelps – Professor at Andover Theological Seminary. ▪ Daughter—Mary Gray, author, renamed Elizabeth Stuart Phelps after her mother died. Became Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward after she married Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist. ▪ Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses. (1851) ▪ Kitty Brown and Her City Cousins. (1852) ▪ Kitty Brown and Her Little School. (1852) ▪ Kitty Brown Beginning to Think. (1853) ▪ The Sunny Side and a Peep at Number Five. (1853) ▪ The Sunny Side; or, The Country Minister's Wife. (1851) ▪ A Peep at Number Five; or, A Chapter in the