100 year anniversary of the bra
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:42 am
According to the paper today,last month was the 100th anniversary of the coining of the term brassiere, by Vogue magazine. The current bra had been invented a few years earlier as a replacement for the corset.
I find it interesting that brassiere is actually a reference to the arms, I guess because the straps go around the arms on their way to the shoulders, as opposed to supporting the breasts by constricting the stomach like some sort of a python.
Since a corset could only be worn by women who didn't do physical work I would guess that the vast majority of women just wore either a peice of cloth wrapped around their chest or nothing at all under their clothing for all those thousands of years previous. And yet now a bra is considered a neccesity.
Come to think of it, back in the days of large families most women (except for the rich who had wet nurses) probably spent about 10 to 15 years either pregnant or nursing.
My how our perceptions about these things change.
Absaroka
I find it interesting that brassiere is actually a reference to the arms, I guess because the straps go around the arms on their way to the shoulders, as opposed to supporting the breasts by constricting the stomach like some sort of a python.
Since a corset could only be worn by women who didn't do physical work I would guess that the vast majority of women just wore either a peice of cloth wrapped around their chest or nothing at all under their clothing for all those thousands of years previous. And yet now a bra is considered a neccesity.
Come to think of it, back in the days of large families most women (except for the rich who had wet nurses) probably spent about 10 to 15 years either pregnant or nursing.
My how our perceptions about these things change.
Absaroka