XJF444370 Advert for The "Hart" Patent Safety Cycling Skirt, c.1897 (printed paper) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: In 1896 Charles Henry Hart, a tailor from Eastbourne, Sussex, applied for a patent for a new design that he had created for a Ladies\' cycling skirt; The bicycle was largely responsible for the revolution in female dress at the end of the Victorian age as it was not physically possible for women to ride a bicycle in the long skirts and corsets that were thought acceptable at the time;); English, out of copyright.