http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1895-08-16/ed-1/seq-8/
The Topeka State Journal. (Topeka, Kan.), 16 Aug. 1895. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
An illustration in a newspaper in 1895 shows what the future of women's bloomers may be into the 20th century (which then wasn't very far away).
Further down on the page, there is this short article (or more like collection of mostly snarky and contradictory observations):
FAIR DEVOTEES OF CYCLING
Fate has decreed that the bicycle girl in bloomers shall become a spinster, observes the Salt Lake Tribune.
The bloomer gives to a shapely women says the Galveston News, a great opportunity; in fact, two of them.
A Boston girl started on a trip around the globe and before she had gone 1,200 miles she received 85 proposals, she says.
If "equal rights" means anything, it means a man's right to keep out of the way of a woman who is just learning to ride says the New York Mail and Express.
Chief Badenoch of Chicago punishes rowdies who assault women in bloomers. He shows gentlemanly instinct. The question of what is a proper costume for a woman is not to be settled by rowdies on the street.
The women of Osnaburg, O., set their dogs on a Canton wheelwoman because she wore bloomers, says the Cleveland World. The women of a Connecticut town about 40 years ago gave one of their sex an order to leave town when she put on the first hoopskirt they ever saw. In six months they were all wearing them.
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