Good feedback here. Thanks. As for the Industrial Revolution, yeah, it is the broader sense to which I refer, because, the greatest period of economic growth in America was between the Civil War and the 1890s (or maybe the end was the depression of 1910). I am aimed precisely at the period when US Steel was founded and P.T. Barnum was building his millions. The rise of Standard Oil, the railroad, and corporations that are still around today. That is the time period reflected in the clothing of choice. It is the late Victorian Era and it carried into the early twentieth century.

In that respect, yes, a "safety bike" might be a better option and more road-worthy in today's world.