Possible Clues:

• Wearing - at one time beyond bearing - for the garden, perhaps
• Slips girls of today won't wear
• Boobs showing in rational dress
• The flower of womanhood were daring to have them
• So wearing for the flower of womanhood at the turn of the century
• Apparel named for an American feminist
• The flowers of Women's Lib?
• As worn by the flower of the feminists?
• Bread - mistakes - underwear
• Embarrassing mistakes