Women in Trousers: A Visual Archive is a new website from Cardiff University that is collecting images of bloomers, knickerbockers, culottes and all manner of bifurcated or ‘divided’ garments to tell the story of trouser-wearing women over more than a century.
The innovative website at www.womenintrousers.org offers a visual account of the complex and sometimes contradictory meanings represented by women ‘wearing the trousers’ from the 1850s to the 1960s, and provides an illuminating document of the momentous cultural, historical and political shifts affecting women’s lives across this period.
Members of the public can submit their own family photographs of women wearing trousers via email to wearingtrousers@cardiff.ac.uk