Antebellum Reform
The
Bloomer Quick Step. The "Bloomer" described in the Daily Richmond Times account
wore an outfit similar to the one seen on the girl illustrating the "Bloomer
Quick Step." A publisher of dance scores apparently mistook the Bloomer costume
as a fashion fad and released a series of illustrated "Bloomer" dances late in
1851.
Resources:
From America's hHstory in the Making: Antebellum Reform
From Course Notes: Antebellum Reform
From Teach US history.org: The Five Points and Antebellum Reform. New York City's Five Points neighborhood was the shock slum of antebellum America.
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: National Expansion & Reform, 1815-1860
From Women's History: What Was the Appeal of Moral Reform to Antebellum Northern Women?
Social Reforms, Transcendentalism and Utopian Communities (1824-1854)
American Renaissance: Literary and Artistic Expressions (1837-1910)
From American History Suite 1010: Success and Failure of American Utopian communities