Splendid page of cycling cartoons here from Kate Beaton:-
"The greatest thing about the invention of the bicycle and ladies starting to ride them is: everything. The clothes! The bikes! The attitude! But perhaps especially: the scads of satirical cartoons made at the time that were supposed to make women look shocking and inappropriate but just makes them look super stylish and badass instead."
Women just look utilitarian these days, which I suppose is a natural trajectory. Trousers suits on Western women once looked edgy, now they look ordinary.
However, here's a gang of stylish women in the June 1897 edition of Vanity Fair:-
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