sentences:  This attracted the attention of the public, and various photographers produced records of the women's unconventional manner of dress through the mid- to late 19th century.Another woman who advocated publicly for dress reform was Mary Edwards Walker, the abolitionist and Civil War surgeon.Walker, who had worn bloomers while working at a military hospital, wrote in 1871 that women's dress should "protect the person, and allow freedom of motion and circulation, and not make the wearer a slave to it".