Binding your Boobs
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Ooooooooooh, can you say “link bait”? I just couldn’t resist that title when the subject of today’s post is bras. Did you know that women have been binding their breasts since at least the Minoan civilization in the 700s BC? Mary Phelps Jacob was granted the first U.S. patent for the brassiere in 1913, in spite of a long standing joke* to the contrary. Of course, bras have undergone some radical changes from the days when women wound strips of cloth around their chests to hold their breasts in place, and now there are bras for all reasons and seasons.
Too big, too small,
Too low, too high
There’s a bra for you
To buy, buy, buy
(Sorry, I sometimes pretend to be a poet. It amuses me, and usually doesn’t hurt others. Too much.)
Most of the more recent bra innovations have occurred in nursing bras, with the latest one given in 2004 for the nursing bra tank, similar to Bravado Nursing Tank. This allows nursing moms to wear styles that other women wear with greater convenience and modesty.
*The claim that the brassiere was invented by a man named Otto Titzling (phonetically tit-sling) who lost a lawsuit with Phillip de Brassiere (fill up de’ brassiere) is an urban legend that originated with the 1971 book Bust-Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development of the Bra and was propagated in a song from the movie Beaches.
