Throughout the 1840s and early 1850s, Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894) emerged as a leader of the reform movements centered in Seneca Falls, New York. These included women’s rights, temperance, and various humanitarian causes. As editor of the temperance newspaper The Lily, Bloomer was heavily influenced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and introduced issues concerning women’s rights to The Lily’s female readers. Today, she is best remembered for championing women’s dress reforms and her promotion of a short dress worn over trousers. Wearers of the Bloomer suit, or simply Bloomers, showed their support for women’s rights.