University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst When the Girls Came Out to Play: The irB th of American Sportswear January 2006 Part Two: The nflueI nce of Education. Chapter 8, The Rise of Interest in Excercise for Women Patricia Campbell Warner Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/umpress_wtg Warner, Patricia Campbell, "Part Two: The nflueI nce of Education. Chapter 8, The Rise of Interest in Excercise for Women" (2006). When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear. 10. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/umpress_wtg/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in When the Girls Came Out to Play: The irB th of American Sportswear by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CHAPTER EIGHT THE RISE OF INTEREST IN Exercise for Women AS THE FASCINATION FOR THE ORIENTAL UNDERWENT A CHANGE WITH THE onset of Romanticism, the simplicity in women’s dress that had character- ized the more carefree and lusty Empire and Regency periods eroded, to be finally lost in the 1820s. With its passing, the concept of freedom of move- ment in women’s clothing disappeared too. Instead, serious corsetry took the place of the emphatic cantilevering of the bosom that had sufficed in the years of the high waist, while new layers of underskirts began to shape the fuller skirts that were to continue to expand in size over the next half century.