Friday Chuckle: A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895

The website Brain Pickings brings us this week's Friday Chuckle... A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895...

• Don’t faint on the road.
• Don’t wear a man’s cap.
• Don’t wear tight garters.
• Don’t boast of your long rides.
• Don’t criticize people’s “legs.”
• Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face.”
• Don’t race. Leave that to the scorchers.
• Don’t wear laced boots. They are tiresome.
• Don’t imagine everybody is looking at you.
• Don’t go to church in your bicycle costume.
• Don’t ask, “What do you think of my bloomers?”
• Don’t use bicycle slang. Leave that to the boys.
• Don’t go out after dark without a male escort.
• Don’t try to have every article of your attire “match.”
• Don’t let your golden hair be hanging down your back.
• Don’t ignore the laws of the road because you are a woman.
• Don’t try to ride in your brother’s clothes “to see how it feels.”