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Fashion: Womens' Sporting Wear

Women were more active by the end of the nineteenth century, and their clothing reflected this. Mail order sporting wear was also available.

Detail of photograph of Brecon hounds at Tregunter Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery	Brecon Gymnasium Display Team, 1892 Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery
Illustration from Cycle Club magazine, 1891 National Cycle Collection, Llandrindod Wells Cycling took off as a pastime in the early '90s due to the development of the pneumatic tyre.
Illustration from a catalogue for Rover Cycles, from A History of Rover Cycles, J Pinkerton, D Roberts and D Pinkerton, Birmingham, 1998