Keywords: Women smoking caricature.jpg Caption from the source Bloomerism “ an American custom cartoon from Punch 1851 Some American women appeared in the streets of London in a tunic and trousers confirming a certain brassy stereotype <br> The feminist bloomer attire received much ridicule in the mid-19th century This cartoon seeks to associate it with women smoking which was considered completely unfeminine during the Victorian period Smoke a global history of smoking 2004 edited by Sander L Gilman and Zhou Xun ISBN 1-86189-200-4 p 23 1851 PD-old-70-1923 Smoking women in art Punch magazine cartoons 1851 cartoons Caricatures of fashion Bloomers 1851 in London 19th-century fashion |