When Amelia invents the prototype for women’s trousers, she pronounces her own work “Brilliant!” The book’s design combines expressive script with curving letters and lively scenes of determined women. Some of their skirts were literal cages, others so tight they were suffocating. McLaren holds up to amused readers the ludicrous dresses which women were forced to wear, at least women whose social class spared them from grueling, unsafe, or tedious labor. A two-page spread with pictures that convey her graceful and purposive movement shows Bloomer starting her own newspaper, hiring women, and focusing on their stories. She was an activist, shown in her bright blue dress and she demonstrated for long-denied suffrage.
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