You don’t have to go very far back in history to understand how large a role undergarments play in the lives of women. When Caitlyn Jenner presented herself to the world for the first time on the July ...

Several members of the Bloomers cast including Amanda Bello (left), Morgan Singer, Hope Brindle, Alex Goldstein, and Alison Yarto (right) perform a bit as part of the Bloomers spring show. Credit: ...

WOODBURY — Imagine walking into a Victoria’s Secret in the early 1800s. Then, as you pass mannequins dressed in bloomers, camisoles and impossibly thin corsets – some so thin they barely fit on the ...

“Intemperance is the great foe to (women’s) peace and happiness,” Bloomer wrote in January 1849. “It is that above all that has made her home desolate and beggared her offspring … Surely, she has the ...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi shocked leaders at an EU summit on Friday by sending them doodles showing women’s underwear through the ages. He passed round his etchings of bloomers and ...

Editor's note: March is Women's History Month. Stories of women from Iowa who fought for equal suffrage tell us something important about standing up for equality and justice in a world where those ...