Editing Elizabeth Cady Stanton (section)

===Dress reform===

[[File:Bloomers.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Bloomers (clothing)|Bloomer]] dress]]
In 1851, [[Elizabeth Smith Miller]], Stanton's cousin, brought a new style of dress to the upstate New York area. Unlike traditional floor-length dresses, it consisted of pantaloons worn under a knee-length dress. [[Amelia Bloomer]], Stanton's friend and neighbor, publicized the attire in ''[[The Lily (newspaper)|The Lily]]'', a monthly magazine that she published. Thereafter it was popularly known as the "Bloomer" dress, or just "[[Bloomers]]." It was soon adopted by many female reform activists despite harsh ridicule from traditionalists, who considered the idea of women wearing any sort of trousers as a threat to the social order. To Stanton, it solved the problem of climbing stairs with a baby in one hand, a candle in the other, and somehow also lifting the skirt of a long dress to avoid tripping. Stanton wore "Bloomers" for two years, abandoning the attire only after it became clear that the controversy it created was distracting people from the campaign for women's rights. Other women's rights activists eventually did the same.<ref>Griffith, pp. 64, 71, 79</ref>