Final National Dress Reform Association Convention
June 21, 1865
On June 21, 1865, the National Dress Reform Association (NDRA) held its final convention at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. The organization, which sought more healthful and scientific clothing for women, foundered amid factional conflict when founder James Caleb Jackson and president Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck had a bitter public spat at the platform over who was in charge of the proceedings; the organization failed shortly thereafter.
