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Women in Trousers is a visual archive developed by Cardiff University which is available at https://www.womenintrousers.org/.

The archive is a collection of digital images which tell the story of trouser-wearing women in history. The wearing of trousers by women has often been seen as a transgressive act throughout history, due to the association of trousers with power and authority, traditionally divested in men. The wearing of trousers did not become a common practice for women until the 20th Century, although some female industrial workers wore them in the 1800s. Even today, the wearing of trousers by women in certain circumstances can still create controversy, for example, on the red carpet.

Famous trouser-wearing women include Joan of Arc, Marlene Dietrich, and Katharine Hepburn.

The history of women wearing trousers can be useful in understanding the history of social, cultural and political changes, and can still cause controversy today. As recently as 2009, a woman in Sudan was fined for wearing trousers in public, as the authorities argued that this violated public decency laws.

The archive includes images of women wearing trousers throughout different historical periods and through all walks of life; including students in Aberystwyth University in a performance in the 1920s and land girls and 'lumber-jills' from the early 20th Century. Images have come from a range of sources, including the Imperial War Museum, University archives and special collections, town and city archives, the Library of Congress and others.

The archive also contains a section for users to submit their own photographs of women wearing trousers, from personal family archives.