The style spread as an "anti-fashion" called Artistic dress in the 1860s in literary and artistic circles, died back in the 1870s, and reemerged as "Aesthetic dress" in the 1880s, where two of the main proponents were the writer Oscar Wilde and his wife Constance, both of whom gave lectures on the subject. In 1881 The Rational Dress Society was founded in London. The Society advocated divided skirts as a more practical form of clothing, but its President and co-founder, Lady Florence Harberton, went further - when cycling, she wore full ‘Rational’ dress, which was a shorter skirt worn over voluminous trousers.