The citations in the passage above has developed the main idea that the creation of the bicycle has brought a lot of changes, one of it is the new clothing options for competing women. The excerpt is from the story “Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom’, written by Sue Macy.
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If this is how you've presented the question, Its a bit hard to answer it when one hasn't read these books. It'd be best if you'd put both books into a summary for us to go based off of, at most.