Objects of Substance – Grammar Bloomers

1906: Display pyramid with Kathleen Lilley standing in the back row first on the left

Decorum still played its part in this early adaptation of athletic attire where the bloomers, with their copious metres (or ‘yards’ in the terminology of the time) of cotton material, were accompanied by black stockings held up with garters. Post 1913, the ‘sailor middy blouse’ with a ubiquitous tie proved popular with Grammar girl athletes.