VICTORIAN female cyclists developed convertible skirts to tackle social barriers ... women to secretly switch between their walking and cycling identities without being harassed.

"People are fascinated by the layers of clothing that were under a Victorian woman's skirt and that people wore at the time. "I love to wear it and what interest me personally is the educational side.

Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian women went to extraordinary sartorial lengths to take part in sports, it has been revealed. Analysis of patents dating from 1890 to the 1940s has shown how ...