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
Caroline Phelps Stokes plus needy and deserving white students. Her sister, Olivia, continued her charitable works and acted as a trustee of the Phelps Stokes Fund. She also donated two tenements to the fund called the Dudley complex at 339-349 East 32nd Street, New York, designed by her nephew, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. She, like her sister Caroline, never married and died in 1927. Caroline Phelps Stokes Caroline Phelps Stokes (4 December 1854 – 1909) was a benefactor to many organisations that helped the underprivileged in the USA, Africa and the Near East, supporting churches, libraries, educational establishments, orphanages, housing and more. A