#SexyWheels
WRVM Collection 1993.0027.001, Gift of Rose D. Shaffer. Full article on Pinterest.
“Etiquette of Traveling” in Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, 1883
Women were cautioned to always have a respectable chaperone while travelling to avoid even the appearance of hooking-up with someone behind closed doors. Bicycles, a symbol of the modern woman, provided an affordable way to travel alone for the first time, giving bicycles a slightly sexy and transgressive reputation.