We have hit peak trouser. In the past year, designers have given us pants with waists high and low, with voluminous pleats and second-skin fits, designs that barrel and flare and taper and crop.

Amelia Bloomer popularized the pants that would come to bear her name—but she didn't invent them. | Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images (Bloomer); Colors Hunter - Chasseur de ...

The Louisville Slugger Museum is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote.The exhibit is called "Bloomer Girls: Baseball, Bikes and the Battle for Ballots."It tells the story of ...

“Intemperance is the great foe to (women’s) peace and happiness,” Bloomer wrote in January 1849. “It is that above all that has made her home desolate and beggared her offspring … Surely, she has the ...

The opening scene of the new book “Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote” (Viking) shows us a 24-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton aboard a ship with her husband ...