"bra, raises and separates her breasts. In its original form, the look was often tied to the promotion of new bra technology. Interest in the bullet bra revived after Madonna wore a cone bra during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. The bra was designed by Jean Paul Gaultier who was inspired by the vintage Perma-Lift bullet bra of the 1940s. By that time, the style was regarded as erotic and provocative. The bullet bra has also become popular with burlesque and rockabilly enthusiasts, both of which draw inspiration from the 1950s. Lana Turner's appearance in the 1937 film ""They"
"began the trend in the 1980s by wearing her cone bra and girdles over her clothing. But it has been picked up in everyday environments as depicted on shows like ""Sex and the City"", in which a corset, bustier, or bra peeking through becomes an accepted norm. In addition some performers particularly Madonna, Lil' Kim, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, and Lady Gaga perform with underwear or lingerie only, which can be credited with popularizing coverage of this fashion trend in the news and press. This celebrity driven trend is then picked up by fashion magazines and fashion"
"promotional opportunities. Manufacturers responded with new fabrics, colours, patterns, styles, padding and elasticity. Hollywood fashion and glamour influenced women's fashion choices including bras like the cone-shaped, spiral-stitched bullet bra popularized by actresses like Patti Page, Marilyn Monroe, and Lana Turner, who was nicknamed the ""Sweater Girl"". Bullet bras allowed women to add a cup size to their bust. Bras for pre-teen and girls entering puberty were first marketed during the 1950s. Prior to the introduction of training bras, young girls in Western countries usually wore a one-piece ""waist"" or camisole without cups or darts. The 1960s reflected increasing interest in"
"or bullet shape. Therefore, 'cathedral bra' was also called the bullet bra. This brassiere design was popularised by actresses like Patti Page, Marilyn Monroe, and Lana Turner, who was nicknamed the ""Sweater Girl."" Although this brassiere design was designed for wearing strapless cocktail dresses and evening gowns and became popular during the 1950s, the market for this design was short-lived because it was 'likely to slip down or need adjustment throughout the evening' (Lynn, 2010, p. 152). However, another brassiere design re-entered the market and grew popularity during the 1950s which even influenced the modern intimate design. Underwire bras were"
"moment I ever felt with Madonna. As a team we were all together.” The Blond Ambition World Tour has been regarded as an iconic musical performance by many critics and media, such as the ""Rolling Stone"" magazine which acclaimed its elaborated choreography and sexual provocativeness, calling it the best tour of 1990 and later the best tour of the 1990s. Within the show, Madonna continued to influence the fashion world in her most shocking and expensive way. She popularized the idea of wearing underwear as outerwear and has since been associated with the pink satin conical bra designed by Jean-Paul"
"has recently designed a bra which is cushioned to relieve underwire pressure and gently massages as you wear it to promote healthy breasts. Olga Erteszek Olga Erteszek (June 15, 1916 – September 15, 1989) was a Polish-American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner. She is famous for her nightgowns with full flowing skirt width and generous sweep. Olga Erteszek along with her husband Jan (1913–1986), a lawyer, came to the United States in 1941. Fleeing Poland and the invading Nazi army, the young couple left their family and most possessions. After emigrating to Russia and then Japan, they both eventually"
"safety regulations mandated sturdier impact protection. The name stuck and is used around the world. See Dagmar bumpers. Notes Citations Bibliography Sabrina (actress) Norma Ann Sykes (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as Sabrina or Sabby, was a 1950s English glamour model who progressed to a minor film career. She was best known for her hourglass figure of breasts coupled with a tiny waist and hips. Sabrina was one of ""a host of exotic, glamorous (British) starlets ... modelled on the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Lana Turner""; others included Diana Dors, Belinda Lee, Shirley"
"means of shoulder straps. She exhibited at the Great Exposition of 1900 and by 1905 the upper half was being sold separately as a ""soutien-gorge"" (literally, ""support for the throat"", but ""gorge"" in old French meant breast), the name by which bras are still known in France. Herminie became a fitter of bras to queens, princesses, dancers, and actresses. Mata Hari was among her customers. She was also the first to use cloth incorporating rubber (elastic) thread. Cadolle's business is still running today. Herminie Cadolle Herminie Cadolle (1845–1926) was the French inventor of the modern bra and founder of the"
"era. During the 1940s and 1950s, the sweater girl became fashionable, supported by a ""bullet bra"" (known also as a torpedo or cone bra) as worn by Jane Russell and Patti Page. In the early 1960s, smaller breasts gained popularity, and in the late 1990s larger breasts became more fashionable. Iris Marion Young described preferences in the United States in 1990: ""round, sitting high on the chest, large but not bulbous, with the look of firmness."" This is regarded as contradictory in several ways. As outerwear, bras in the form of bikini tops in the 1950s became the acceptable public"
"Herminie Cadolle Herminie Cadolle (1845–1926) was the French inventor of the modern bra and founder of the Cadolle lingerie house. Cadolle was a close friend of the French insurrectionist Louise Michel, and it was this connection that led her to leave for the safety of Buenos Aires. Here, in 1887, Herminie opened a shop selling made-to-measure underwear. Returning to Paris in 1889, she opened a similar lingerie workshop on the street ""Chaussée d'Antin"", where she invented a two-piece undergarment called ""le bien-être"" (the wellbeing). The lower part was a corset for the waist and the upper supported the breasts by"
"had the choice to do so. This re-appropriation allowed a symbol historically associated with female oppression, to become reconceived as a symbol of sexual empowerment in fashion. However, although the punks and Goths pioneered the transformation of the meaning of the corset, pop singer Madonna played an instrumental role in popularizing it. Most famously debuted in her Blonde Ambition Tour of 1990–91, the iconic pink satin cone breasted corset worn by Madonna and designed by French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, has had a profound influence on fashion, especially in the trend of underwear as outerwear. Gaultier, a designer famous for emphasizing"
"Carmen Miranda Carmen Miranda GCIH, OMC () (born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s. Nicknamed ""The Brazilian Bombshell"", Miranda is noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in her American films. As a young woman, she designed hats in a boutique before making her first recordings with composer Josué de Barros in 1929. Miranda's 1930 recording of ""Taí"" (""Pra Você Gostar de Mim""), written by Joubert de Carvalho, catapulted her"
"and North America were wearing bras. From there the bra was adopted by women in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In 1910, Mary Phelps Jacob (known later in life as Caresse Crosby), a 19-year-old New York socialite, purchased a sheer evening gown for a debutante ball. At that time, the only acceptable undergarment was a corset stiffened with whalebone. Mary had large breasts and found that the whalebone visibly poked out around her plunging neckline and from under the sheer fabric. Dissatisfied with this arrangement, she worked with her maid to fashion two silk handkerchiefs together with some pink ribbon"
"Carol Doda Carol Ann Doda (August 29, 1937November 9, 2015) was a topless dancer in San Francisco, California, who was active from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was the first public topless dancer. In 1964 Doda made international news, first by dancing topless at the city's Condor Club, then by enhancing her bust from size 34 to 44 through silicone injections. Her breasts became known as Doda's ""twin 44s"" and ""the new Twin Peaks of San Francisco"". Carol Ann Doda was born August 29, 1937, in Solano County, California, and grew up in San Francisco. Her mother's maiden name"
"very popular for presenting a show in which she bathed in a glass of champagne; Lyn May, of Chinese ancestry, pioneer of the nudes and one of the principal stars of the burlesque; Rossy Mendoza, known popularly as ""The Body"" or ""The Shorter Waist"", thanks to her impressive anatomy; Sasha Montenegro, who on par of her film career performed live shows that attracted the public because of her popularity; The Brazilian Gina Montes, famous by her appearance in a popular TV Show; Grace Renat, ""The Goddess of the Night"", Irma Serrano, who scandalized at the time with her controversial theatrical"
"and portrayed garments with shoulder supports in a mono-bosom style and with limited adaptability. Their major appeal was to those for whom lung function and mobility were priorities, rather than outer appearance. The first modern bra was patented by the German Christine Hardt in 1889. Sigmund Lindauer from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany developed a bra for mass production in 1912 and patented it in 1913. It was mass-produced by Mechanischen Trikotweberei Ludwig Maier und Cie. in Böblingen, Germany. With metal shortages, World War I encouraged the end of the corset. By the time the war ended, most fashion-conscious women in Europe"
"Sabrina (actress) Norma Ann Sykes (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as Sabrina or Sabby, was a 1950s English glamour model who progressed to a minor film career. She was best known for her hourglass figure of breasts coupled with a tiny waist and hips. Sabrina was one of ""a host of exotic, glamorous (British) starlets ... modelled on the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Lana Turner""; others included Diana Dors, Belinda Lee, Shirley Eaton and Sandra Dorne. Sabrina was born on 19 May 1936 at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Cheshire, to Walter and"
"Sweater girl The term ""sweater girl"" was made popular in the 1940s and 1950s to describe Hollywood actresses like Lana Turner, Jayne Mansfield, and Jane Russell, who adopted the popular fashion of wearing tight, form-fitting sweaters that emphasized the woman's bustline. The sweater girl trend was not confined to Hollywood and was viewed with alarm by some. In 1949 a Pittsburgh police superintendent even singled out the sweater girl as a symptom of the moral decline of postwar youth: New, soft fabrics like cashmere and angora were being used to make sweaters. The conical shape bra, sometimes called a bullet"
"succumbed to the thong craze by attending an awards show with bejeweled thong straps peeking out from above her miniskirt."" Actresses Gillian Anderson, Natalie Portman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Tara Reid, MTV's Molly Sims, model Kate Moss, singers Beyoncé Knowles, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, LeAnn Rimes and Britney Spears have been associated as propagators of the trend by ABC. In France, clothing brands started creating the thong or ""le string"" in styles that encourage a projection above low-hung jeans, such as designs that had little jewels or luminous stars sewn into the rear. In India, thongs"
"of the 1920s and like the first modern bra invented by Mary Phelps Jacob, two handkerchiefs attached to a band and tied around the chest. Gernreich’s no-bra was little more than that. Both the 1920s and the 1960s celebrated the stick-like figure of adolescence, and with that meant small, flat breasts. His minimalist bra revolutionized brassiere design, initiating a trend toward more natural shapes and soft, sheer fabrics. The retail success of the No Bra was followed in 1965 with the next design, a ""no-side"" bra to accommodate dresses with deep armholes. It had a narrow stretch band around the"
"History of bras The history of bras is inextricably intertwined with the social history of the status of women, including the evolution of fashion and changing views of the female body. Women have used a variety of garments and devices to cover, restrain, reveal, or modify the appearance of breasts. Bra- or bikini-like garments are depicted in some female athletes of the Minoan civilization in the 14th century BC. From the 14th century onward, the undergarments of wealthier women in the Western world were dominated by the corset, which supported the breasts by transferring their weight to the rib cage."
"heavy reliance on foundation lingerie. Legs were relatively less emphasized as elements of beauty. From the 1960s onward, however, changes in fashions were towards increasing displays of cleavage in films and television, with Jane Russell and Elizabeth Taylor being the biggest stars who led the fashion, and in everyday life low-cut dress styles became very common, even for casual wear. The Wonderbra was created in 1964 by Louise Poirier for Canadelle, a Canadian lingerie company. It had 54 design elements that lift and support the bustline while creating a deep plunge and push-together effect. The ideal of breasts and cleavage"
"Jane Russell wore the ""Cantilever"" bra that was scientifically designed by Howard Hughes to maximize a voluptuous look. The invention of Lycra (originally called ""Fibre K"") in 1959 revolutionized the underwear industry and was quickly incorporated into every aspect of lingerie. After the war, the American look (which consisted of broad shoulders, floral ties, straight-legged pants, and shirts with long pointed collars, often worn hanging out rather than tucked in) became very popular among men in Europe. Certain London manufacturers ushered in a revival of Edwardian elegance in men's fashion, adopting a tight-fitting retro style that was intended to appeal"
"started to shift to buttocks, especially in the media. In 2600 BCE, princess Nofret of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt was depicted in a V-neck gown with a plunging neckline that exposed ample cleavage. In 1600 BCE, Snake Goddess figurines were sculpted in Minos with open dress-fronts, revealing entire breasts. Ancient Greek goddess Hera wore an early version of a push-up bra, described in the ""Iliad"" as festooned with ""brooches of gold"" and ""a hundred tassels"", to increase her cleavage to divert Zeus from the Trojan War. Décolletage was often a feature of the dress of the late Middle Ages."
"DD-sized breasts while playing racquetball and volleyball. Unable to interest mainstream bra manufacturers, she collaborated with freelance apparel designer Heidi Fisk, and founded Enell Incorporated. After considerable lobbying, she persuaded Oprah Winfrey in 2001 to try her bra. This led to very positive reviews in """", a 2001 appearance on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"", and a huge surge in orders. Sports bras can either encapsulate or compress breasts. Bras that encapsulate breasts have molded cups, while compression-type bras restrict movement by flattening the breasts. Encapsulation-type bras generally are more effective at reducing discomfort, but some women prefer compression designs. The"
"disease, she received what was then still-experimental open heart surgery at Mayo Clinic. She died from complications from pneumonia in Rome, Italy on January 24, 1970, aged 78. ""Time"" described her as the ""literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris."" Anaïs Nin described her as ""a pollen carrier, who mixed, stirred, brewed, and concocted friendships."" But she lived long enough to see many of the aspiring writers she nurtured in the 1920s become well known and accepted authors. The bra she invented went through a number of transformations and became a standard undergarment for women all"
"into product marketing, as represented by the highly structured, conically pointed Torpedo or Bullet bra, designed for ""maximum projection"". The bullet bra was worn by the Sweater Girl, a busty and wholesome ""girl next door"" whose tight-fitting outergarments accentuated her artificially enhanced curves. Underwire began to be used in bra construction. Actresses like Jane Russell appeared in photographs wearing the new bras that emphasized the ""lift and separate"" design, which influenced later bra design. For the movie, ""The Outlaw"", which features actress Jane Russell, the producer and airplane designer Howard Hughes constructed the Cantilever bra for Russell to wear in"
"Wonderbra The Wonderbra is a type of push-up underwire brassiere that gained worldwide prominence in the 1990s. Although the Wonderbra name was first trademarked in the U.S. in 1955, the brand was developed in Canada. Moses (Moe) Nadler, founder and majority owner of the Canadian Lady Corset Company, licensed the trademark for the Canadian market in 1939. By the 1960s the Canadian Lady brand had become known in Canada as ""Wonderbra, the company."" In 1961 the company introduced the Model 1300 plunge push-up bra. This bra became one of the best-selling Canadian styles and is virtually identical to today's Wonderbra."
"Mona von Bismarck Mona von Bismarck (""née"" Strader; February 5, 1897 – July 10, 1983), also known as Mona Bismarck, was an American socialite, fashion icon and philanthropist. Her five husbands included Harrison Williams, among the richest men in America, and Count Albrecht Edzard von Bismarck-Schönhausen, a grandson of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. She was the first American to be named ""The Best Dressed Woman in the World"" by a panel of top couturiers, including Coco Chanel, and she was also named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. She was born as Edmona Margaret Travis Strader"
"I burned my bra"", but that ""now it's the nineties ... I realize Playtex [underwear manufacturer] had supported me better than any man I know."" Claire Perry, who became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 2010 and later a government minister, reflected that, as a ""women's officer"" at Oxford University in the early 1980s, she was ""a bra-burning feminist with a hideous new-romantic haircut"", but that her feminism had, in her view, matured. By the mid-1980s, the American singer Madonna had turned the bra into a positive, even provocative, fashion statement. Madonna's flamboyant and gritty style (notably seen to bohemian"
"was magical"". Similarly, Jonathan Rosenbaum stated that ""she subtly subverted the sexist content of her material"" and that ""the difficulty some people have discerning Monroe's intelligence as an actress seems rooted in the ideology of a repressive era, when superfeminine women weren't supposed to be smart"". Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic ""blonde bombshell"" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a"
"the immense success of the ""Angels""-bra line, which was advertised with the models Tyra Banks, Helena Christensen, Karen Mulder, Daniela Pestova and Stephanie Seymour wearing wings, and was introduced to the annual show in 1998. The very same models who were featured in the campaigns for the ""Angel""-bra line, with the exception of Chandra North filling in the spot for Christensen, walked the runway with Angel wings on. Over the years, the show featured various forms and sizes of wings, such as butterfly, peacock, or devil wings, which have become emblematic of the Victoria's Secret brand. In theory, wings are"
"popularized by Britney Spears. Some experts even dubbed visible whale tails as ""thong feminism"" for young girls. Other experts accused marketers of ""outrageous selling of sex to children"". One conjecture assumes that the style of exposed thong may have ""bubbled-up"" from the street level to the high streets, like the jeans and t-shirt look of James Dean. Another assumes the fad was initiated by glamor model Jordan in England and singers Mariah Carey and Spears in the United States. The phenomenon has been compared to the phenomenon of visible bra straps. Saying that ""just as Madonna made bras a public"