Tags: Musical.
Bloomer Girl is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Harold Arlen lyrics by E.Y. Harburg and a book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy based on an unpublished play by Lilith and Dan James. The plot concerns independent Evelina Applegate a hoop skirt manufacturer’s daughter who defies her father by rejecting hoopskirts and embracing comfortable bloomers advocated by her aunt Dolly Bloomer.