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
William Phelps (colonist) Massachusetts, in 1630 aboard the ship "Mary and John" with his wife Ann and four children. Oliver Seymour Phelps and his son-in-law, Andrew T. Servin, published "The Phelps Family in America" in 1899. They mistakenly concluded that William Phelps was the brother of George Phelps, who apparently arrived in Windsor, Connecticut in 1635 aboard the "Recovery" of London, and that both emigrated from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Modern researchers have concluded this is incorrect. Phelps and Servin's identification of the origin of William Phelps in Tewkesbury was based solely on an estimate of his birth date, derived from what was thought