Edwardian cycling outfit

Print of Bicycle Suits in American women's magazine "The Delineator". Issued in September, 1896. Riding with style.

By the 1890s, the bicycle was creating a social revolution in the United States. Nearly two million bicycles were being manufactured each ye...

If you were horseback riding in 1901, you had to have the proper outfit. (In the Victorian Era, you had an eating utensil or dish for every option and you had the proper clothes for the proper activity.) This is titled "Riding suit Number 2" I wonder how fancy Number 1 was! Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, D.S. Dark, N.Y.

Edwardian Cycling Outfit- alternate 1901 cycling outfit for Madeleine

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1900 Cycling suit

A red wool jacket and cycling bloomers made from an original pattern from the 1890s. The jacket is lined with cotton and both items feature hand-worked buttonholes and replica buttons.

They were really quite elegant!

bicycle outfit

I can totally see Amelia Peabody sporting this outfit!

1900 cycling suit

Beginning of this year, a friend of mine found a sweater in a modern shop which looked remarkably like a 1890’s sports sweater. It’s not quite perfect, but it definitely mimics the look…

I got another edwardian set and it is my new favourite 😭💕

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Those pants!!

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