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
Edward John Phelps an ardent "anti-expansionist." President Grover Cleveland intended to appoint him as U.S. Chief Justice in 1888, but Phelps was concerned that his tenure as ambassador to the Court of St. James's in Great Britain would cause the Democratic Party to lose the support of Irish Americans, and he declined. In 1893, Phelps was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. Phelps died in New Haven, Connecticut. Former Yale University president Timothy Dwight V eulogized Phelps. He was buried in Burlington's Greenmount Cemetery. Edward John Phelps married Mary S. Haight in 1847; the marriage produced 3 children: Edward Haight Phelps