Keywords: Ellimans-Universal-Embrocation-Slough-1897-Ad.png 1897 advertisement in The Graphic for Elliman's Universal Embrocation manufactured in Slough showing a relatively early example of an ordinary non-sea-bathing Western woman appearing skirtless in public wearing rationals or knickerbockers or bloomers for bicycle-riding The whole outfit top and bottom was known as a bicycle suit For the radical change in the way that women rode bicycles over a period of just ten years compare Image Bicycling-ca1887-bigwheelers jpg and Image Ausfahrt im Sociable um 1886 - Verkehrszentrum JPG which date from just before the safety bicycle and the woman's bicycle suit started to catch on Scanned by H Churchyard Uploaded to en Wikipedia as w Image Ellimans-Universal-Embrocation-Slough-1897-Ad png on 15 53 18 August 2005 by w User Churchh PD-old-70 PD-US 1890s fashion 1897 advertisements Vintage bicycles Women in advertisements Slough Bloomers Bicycles in art Bicycle advertising Knickerbockers Bicycle dresses The Graphic 1897 Females with bicycles |