#they were called panniers because of the word for the dual saddle bags

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Currently investigating, but bicycle panniers:

How I knew panniers, the historical support garment of the mid to late 1700s, through historical fashion: (Image from)

Before fashions got to the extremes that panniers would support, pocket hoops were used, which could hold a lot:

Just wondering how 18th-century undergarment support -> bag used for bicycles.

(word popularity over time of pannier, which was also apparently a name for bags on beasts of burden)

It definitely spikes during the late 1700s before Napolean for the historical support garment.

It begins to spike again around the 1810s when the bicycle (or more accurately, the swift walker) was invented. A more bicycle-like bicycle came around the mid-1800s.

Although bicycles supposedly became ~super~ popular/common around the 1880s-ish, when the word is in decline...one would expect that bags for bicycles would be popular, especially since tie-on pockets weren't really a thing. This video from CrowsEyeProductions mentions Queen Victoria had a pocket in her dress, but seemingly as part of the fabric of the dress itself, not a functional undergarment.

(For ref, I saw the word pannier to refer to the bag in June's Journey, a game set in the 1920s, and I know they put in *some* effort on their research, judging by the soccer balls they depict & etc)