Why is it not worn to-day?
No woman who has ever masqueraded in man's dress or donned it for climbing will ever forget the freedom of it.

Yet the only woman in the Christian world who ever wore it at once naturally and with that touch of coquetry which is necessary to carry it off, as far as this writer's personal observation goes, was Madame Dieulafoy, and Madame Dieulafoy was protected by the French government and an exclusive circle.
Bloomers proved too much for even the courage of dear Miss Anthony.
For two years she wore them, and then with tears and lamentations resigned them.

In that resignation Miss Anthony paid tribute, unconsciously no doubt, to something deeper than she ever grasped in the woman question.

Her valiant soul met its master in her own nature, but she did not recognize it.

She abandoned her convenient and becoming costume because of prejudice, she said.