Lingerie: 1900

1900
As well-mannered women were allowed more physical freedom in the first years of the century, what they required from their clothes changed as a result. Sports of all sorts became ever more popular, especially cycling and tennis. Baggy bloomers, named after their creator Mary Bloomer, were also known as "rational dress." They were worn under thin dresses for cycling, but were thought racy.

It was an thrilling time, when the American inventor Henry Ford designed the first popular mass-produced motor car, the Model T, in 1908 and French pilot Bleriot crossed the English Channel in an aeroplane for the first time.