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The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

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Amelia Bloomer
Age: 76 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 27
Died: 1894
Died: December 30
Feminist
Journalist
Suffragette
Homer
New York
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
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Women
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