#5 Mary Ward’s ‘Hyde Park Safety Skirt’ – Patent #9605
This patent does not include an illustration, which is unusual. Illustrations provide valuable data for researchers. We devised this, based on our toiles and mock-ups.
#2 Gill’s Cycling Semi-Skirt – Patent #6794
Madame Julia Gill, a Court Dressmaker, filed a patent a 5th Jan 1895 for 'A Cycling Costume for Ladies'. It was accepted on 16th Feb 1895.
Bygrave ‘Convertible Skirt’ and Jaeger – Commercial distribution
A common difficulty when studying patents is losing the research trail. You may have been piecing archival materials and genealogical studies together to create a fragmented picture of the inventor for…
Understanding patents without drawings
Convertible garments with hidden elements are already hard to understand with drawings present. Patents without drawings pose further challenges. So, we started to make our own visuals. Mary Ward's patent…
Bygrave – Triple patentee
Alice Bygrave (whose 'Quick Change' cycling skirt is one of the first garments that we have made) lodged her patent for the 'quick change' cycling skirt four times! The first…
#4 Mary and Sarah Pease’s skirt/cape – Patent #13,832
The second cycle outfit we have chosen to make is from a patent by Mary Elizabeth Pease and Sarah Ann Pease, of Sunnyside, Grove Road, Harrogate in Yorkshire. It was submitted…
#1 Bygrave Convertible Skirt – Patent #17,145
The first cycle outfit we have chosen to make is from a patent by Alice Louisa Bygrave, of No. 113 Cantebury Road, Brixton in the County of Surrey. It was…