英语词汇bloomers的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bloomers. Bloomers take their name from early feminist Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–94), who did not invent them as is often stated. Bloomers were originally billowing Turkish pantaloons, bound with elastic around the ankles and covered by a short skirt and loose-fitting tunic, a kind of pants suit of the 19th century. They were designed and first worn in 1850 by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, daughter of the wealthy abolition- ist, Gerrit Smith, but Mrs. Bloomer defended the masculine pantaloons with the same vehemence as their detractors and it is her name that they immortalize. Editor of The Lily, the house organ of a temperance society, Mrs. Bloomer was an ardent feminist who demanded that the word “obey” be omitted from the marriage vows when she wed. She wore Mrs. Miller’s new costume on lecture platforms across the country, insisting that fashionable hoopskirts were both cumbersome and unsanitary, picking up dust and mud on the then largely unpaved Ameri- can streets. When preachers banned women wearing bloomers from church, threatening excommunication and pointing out that the Bible forbids a woman donning anything that pertains to a man (Deut. 22:5), she reminded her religious critics that Genesis made no distinction between the fig leaves of Adam and Eve. Mrs. Bloomer even inspired a troop of Bloomer Girls to sail to England, where they were generally met with laughter or indignation. Her proselytizing, coupled with the fact that the pantaloons “bloomed out” so, made the appellation bloom- ers stick in the public mind.

词汇	bloomers
词源	bloomers. Bloomers take their name from early feminist Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–94), who did not invent them as is often stated. Bloomers were originally billowing Turkish pantaloons, bound with elastic around the ankles and covered by a short skirt and loose-fitting tunic, a kind of pants suit of the 19th century. They were designed and first worn in 1850 by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, daughter of the wealthy abolition- ist, Gerrit Smith, but Mrs. Bloomer defended the masculine pantaloons with the same vehemence as their detractors and it is her name that they immortalize. Editor of The Lily, the house organ of a temperance society, Mrs. Bloomer was an ardent feminist who demanded that the word “obey” be omitted from the marriage vows when she wed. She wore Mrs. Miller’s new costume on lecture platforms across the country, insisting that fashionable hoopskirts were both cumbersome and unsanitary, picking up dust and mud on the then largely unpaved Ameri- can streets. When preachers banned women wearing bloomers from church, threatening excommunication and pointing out that the Bible forbids a woman donning anything that pertains to a man (Deut. 22:5), she reminded her religious critics that Genesis made no distinction between the fig leaves of Adam and Eve. Mrs. Bloomer even inspired a troop of Bloomer Girls to sail to England, where they were generally met with laughter or indignation. Her proselytizing, coupled with the fact that the pantaloons “bloomed out” so, made the appellation bloom- ers stick in the public mind.
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