{"id":1423,"date":"2014-12-06T04:23:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:18:28","slug":"you-forgot-your-skirt-amelia-bloomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3412.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3412-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3412\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3412-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3412-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3412-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was <em>Mary Poppins<\/em>, of all things, that introduced my boys to the idea that women had not always had the same civil rights as men.  My oldest was curious, so I started looking for age-appropriate discussions of the subject.  This was a success; the boys actively request we read it.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia Bloomer was born in 1818, but she was utterly uninterested in being a &#8220;proper lady.&#8221;  She wanted to work, vote, and wear practical clothing.  So, she started her own newspaper, advocated for the vote, and published the pattern for the proto-pants that became known as bloomers.  As Mrs. Banks would say:  &#8220;Well done, Sister Suffragette!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Author:  Shana Corey<br \/>\nIllustrator:  Chesley McLaren<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=insofadog-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0439078199&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;npa=1&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=insofadog-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B00E9ZAT4Y&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;npa=1&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Mary Poppins, of all things, that introduced my boys to the idea that women had not always had the same civil rights as men. My oldest was curious, so I started looking for age-appropriate discussions of the subject. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2],"tags":[526,544,545,26,525,664,527],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction","category-picture-books","tag-chesley-mclaren","tag-civil-rights","tag-mary-poppins","tag-out-of-print","tag-shana-corey","tag-usa","tag-you-forgot-your-skirt-amelia-bloomer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}