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Book ReviewsYou Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer |
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Book: You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer
Written by: Shana Corey Chesley Mclaren |
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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In the classroom.
Rating:
4 / 5
Synopsis: Amelia Bloomer lived in a time before women gained the right to
vote. Many ladies did not work, but Amelia Bloomer started her own newspaper. She believed it was foolish that women wore heavy, wide dresses with corsets so tight they fainted easily. A friend comes to visit Amelia, and brings her cousin, who is wearing new clothes: she wore a short skirt of baggy pants legs. Amelia copied the pattern and made her own, which she wore around town. Townspeople were shocked at the unseemly sight, but when Amelia wrote about the clothes in her newspaper many women thought the idea was brilliant. Bloomers became a new style of clothing.
Evaluation: You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer will provide children with
knowledge of the women?s rights movement. Using clear language and comparisons, readers also learn about women?s fashion during the early 1900s. This book offers insight into the restricted roles of women, who were somewhat trapped in their heavy clothing. Teachers will find the author?s note helpful in providing background and additional information regarding Amelia Bloomer, Bloomers, and the fight for women?s rights. Paintings in the book were done in opaque watercolors. The paintings will provide visual representations of items readers may not be familiar with, such as corsets, petticoats a printing press and bloomers. Humor is used in the artwork to demonstrate how restrictive the clothing of the time was.
You Forgot Your Skirt Amelia Bloomer
Rating:
5 / 5
Amelia Bloomer was not a proper lady. All the other ladies thought she was ridiculous. she would protest, start her own buisnesses with other women. Amelia Bloomer was always looking for a way to fight for womens rights, and to change the way women had to dress. But the world just wan't ready for Amelia Bloomer yet. Until one day when her friends cousin brought somthing amazing into Amelias life. It was a different type of dress . It had pants. Amelia was amazed by this outfit. right away she made her own. Pretty soon women all over the world wanted to wear (what Amelia called) Bloomers. They made then in plaid, blue, pink, and many other designs and colors. Amelia Bloomer made a big differenc for women. to find out what else dhe did for women read this book. i think you'll love it
Skirts are for women and pants are for men....Always
Rating:
5 / 5
It used to be that way. Now, girls can wear pants if they like, and well, men wear pants too, always, no skirts. One day, Amelia Bloomer is sick of little girls looking too nice to play, and skirts are NOT practically for fun. Amelia takes a stand and makes.....BLOOMERS!
~Erin
Age 11
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