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
Henry T. Phelps himself in a solo practice between 1910 and 1940. Phelps designed buildings in several architectural styles such as Romanesque Revival, Mission Revival, Beaus-Arts and Streamline Moderne. Phelps married Laura Clamp in San Antonio in 1905 and the couple had two children. He died of a heart attack in San Antonio. Henry T. Phelps Henry Truman Phelps (August 25, 1871 – December 4, 1944) was a prominent Texas architect responsible for the design of many Texas county courthouses and other public and commercial buildings in San Antonio and around the state. Phelps was born in Anaqua, Texas to Edwin McNamee and