Amelia Bloomer, best known for women’s dress reform, was active in the temperance, abolitionist and women’s rights movements all her life, because she was a disciple of Jesus Christ. Male clergy attacked her from the pulpit for wearing Turkish trousers, based on an Old Testament verse. She fired back, “It matters not what Moses had to say to the men and women of his time about what they should wear. If clergy really cared about what Moses said about clothes, they would all put fringes and blue ribbons on their garments.”
Daily Office Asia-Pacific 
