Goldsmiths, University Of London Bikes and bloomers | kat jungnickel

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• An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear.The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation.
• Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives-cycle wear.
• This illustrated account of women's cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in the history of feminism.Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women.
• Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals.
• Yet wearing rational cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women.
• Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made, and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs.
• The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear.Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s.
• Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams.
• Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets.
• Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape.