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"The dress reform movement lasted from about 1850 to 1900 and involved groups of women, who wanted to reform their clothes to be healthier and more comfortable. The women formed clubs, held conventions to show off reform clothes, and listened to many speeches on the issue. The dress reform movement, however, had a number of problems that led it to fail. The dress reformers were almost uniformly from the same social class and circles, they disagreed on how, why, and to what extent dress should be reformed, and many of them, even though they supported the movement, did not wear reformed clothes due to factors like cost and fear of ridicule."