"time. It became fashionable from the early 1990s to wear clothing that showed bra straps. Sports bras, in particular, are often worn as outerwear. Versace's fall 2013 couture collection featured fashions that were open in the front, revealing underwire bras. Madonna was one of the first to start showing her bra straps, in the late 1980s. A corset she wore as outerwear during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour sold for US$52,000 in 2012 at the Christie's Pop Culture auction in London. Wearing clothes that reveal the bra or straps became so common that ""Cosmopolitan"" created guidelines in 2012 on"
"Bette Midler Bette Midler (; born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in ""Fiddler on the Roof"" and ""Salvation"" on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist. Throughout her career, many of her songs became hits on the record"
"and on bases to show her gratitude to military members by serving them meals just before deployment. References for Honors & Accolades: Bette Midler Bette Midler (; born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in ""Fiddler on the Roof"" and ""Salvation"" on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970,"
"Bridget Powers Bridget Powers (born October 11, 1980) is an American hardcore pornographic actress with dwarfism. She is often credited as ""Bridget the Midget"" or with the alternate spelling ""Bridget Powerz"". Besides her adult work, she has also appeared in many films in either comedic or dramatic roles, such as ""Big Money Rustlas"", ""Tiptoes"", and ""S.W.A.T. (film)"". Her parents divorced when she was one year old, and she had a number of operations between the ages of three and fourteen to correct bowed legs; the results left her with one straight leg and one that points to the left. Powers"
"body to get the actress to play a scene a different way. Devo Cutler-Rubenstein credits Stella Adler for inspiring her that a character is made real through one's imagination. She cites a story when she studied with Stella Adler who slowly peeled her bra off under her clothes, while lecturing about Tennessee Williams in Los Angeles, ""You listened to me, didn't you, because you were fascinated with what I was doing with my bra?"" Devo says Stella insisted on the truth living in our imagination and that was ""unending pool of information and research to be accessed."" Adler married three"
"Mud Will Be Flung Tonight Mud ""Will"" Be Flung Tonight is an album by the American singer and comedian Bette Midler. It is a live recording of one of Midler's stand-up comedy shows performed in 1985. Although primarily a spoken word album, Midler is accompanied onstage by her long-time musical collaborator Marc Shaiman on piano. The album captures Midler """"throwing mud into the faces of some of your favorites"""", among them Madonna (""""Like a virgin...? Touched for the very first time...? For the very first time today!"""") Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen and Olivia Newton-John (""""Let's get physical... let me hear"
"Marcelle Karp Marcelle Karp, a.k.a. Betty Boob, (born 1964), is an American feminist writer, editor, and television director and producer. Karp worked as a television producer and director for Lifetime, Fox, and HBO; and has written for Spin, Details, and Jane magazines. In 1993 Karp and Debbie Stoller produced the first issue of ""Bust"", """"The Magazine for Women With Something to Get Off Their Chests"""", now seen as one of the flagship publications of third-wave feminism, mixing feminism with sexuality. ""Betty Boob"" was the name that Karp used in writing for the magazine (Stoller used ""Celina Hex""). The two women"
"as ""the embodiment of beauty"". A study by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons attributed a 10% rise in 2010 of the number of British women receiving breast augmentation surgery in part to Hendricks' influence. Hendricks has moved away from accepting the term ""full-figured"" and once lambasted a reporter who used the term while interviewing her. Hendricks commented in September 2010 that the media is too focused on women's bodies and not their actual talents, ""I was working my butt off on the show [""Mad Men""] and then all anyone was talking about was my body"". Hendricks is a"
"Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (; born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, singer, dancer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials, B.B. Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life. She started her acting career in 1952. She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in the controversial ""And God Created Woman"". Bardot caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, ""The Lolita"
"that the bra was invented by a man named Otto Titzling (""tit sling"") who lost a lawsuit with ""Phillip de Bra"" (""fill up the bra""). This originated with the 1971 book ""Bust-Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development of the Bra"" and was propagated in a comedic song from the movie ""Beaches"". In 1964, Danish Fashion historian Rudolf Kristian Albert Broby-Johansen wrote that the topless look, which liberated breasts from bras, should be treated seriously. He asserted that it was a way for a new generation of women to express themselves. In 1969, he wrote an article"
"order by date of first appearance. Harlettes The Harlettes, The Staggering Harlettes, is a trio of backup singers who support Bette Midler during her live musical performances. The Harlettes' line-up has changed many times since their inception. Bette Midler’s stage act grew out of her early 1970s performances at the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in Manhattan which offered entertainment on the weekends. Due to her powerful singing voice, her outrageous costumes and her biting wit, Midler's performances became a favourite of the bathhouse crowd. Inspired in part by the Theatre of the Ridiculous, Midler’s stage show evolved into a"
"December 1937, the actress Micheline Patton was controversially filmed from behind while wearing a backless dress in the final episode of the early BBC fashion documentary ""Clothes-Line"". The illusion of nudity led to outraged viewers writing in to complain, and Pearl Binder, who co-presented the show, quipped, ""Grandmamma looks back but Micheline has no back to be seen."" A backless dress can be held up in a number of ways. The most common is by a single piece of cloth or strap which passes behind the wearer's neck, halterneck-style. The neck strap can itself be covered by the wearer's hair,"
"hired photographers Mark Liddell and David LaChapelle to shoot a bondage-themed print advertising campaign. The ads include models, including celebrities Christina Aguilera, Jonathan Bennett, La Toya London and André 3000, in various forms of bondage as a symbol of reducing one's voice by failing to register as a voter. The photos include the tag, ""Only you can silence yourself."" The ads drew national media attention, particularly those of actress Jessica Alba, who wears no visible clothing and is bound with black tape over her mouth and chest. Alba said of the advertisement, ""It didn't freak me out at all. What"
"Harlettes The Harlettes, The Staggering Harlettes, is a trio of backup singers who support Bette Midler during her live musical performances. The Harlettes' line-up has changed many times since their inception. Bette Midler’s stage act grew out of her early 1970s performances at the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in Manhattan which offered entertainment on the weekends. Due to her powerful singing voice, her outrageous costumes and her biting wit, Midler's performances became a favourite of the bathhouse crowd. Inspired in part by the Theatre of the Ridiculous, Midler’s stage show evolved into a bawdy and flamboyant mixture of stand-up"
"image, implanting an image of the ""ideal"" female form. Corsets certainly reinforced the image of a weaker sex, unable to defend themselves, and also made it a challenge to disrobe. In practice, early bras made little market penetration. They were expensive, and only educated wealthy reformers wore them to any extent. American women who made important contributions included Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) (""When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off"") and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832–1919). There are considerable differences of opinion as to who ""invented"" the modern brassière or bra. Patent dates indicate some of the"
"support of her sultry Harlettes and the choreography of Toni Basil, Midler’s performances became known for their exhausting singing and dance routines. In a 1973 review of one of her shows, ""Rolling Stone"" writer Ed McCormack stated: “Watching Bette and the girls work out, the raw awkward sexual energy of it all makes you think of Tina Turner.” During a single performance Midler and her Harlettes sing everything from wartime radio tunes such as ""Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"", Depression-era jazz songs such as ""Big Noise From Winnetka"", ""I Only Have Eyes for You"", and ""Lullaby of Broadway"", and early girl"
"of praise uttered by presenters and recipients during art-awards ceremonies. Midstream, assuming the persona of a troubled, postfeminist art star, Fraser strips down, [...] to a Gucci thong, bra and high-heel shoes, and says, ""I'm not a person today. I'm an object in an art work."""" In her videotape performance ""Untitled"" (2003), 60 minutes in duration, Fraser recorded a hotel-room sexual encounter at the Royalton Hotel in New York, with a private collector, who had paid close to $20,000 to participate, """"not for sex,"" according to the artist, but ""to make an artwork."""" According to Andrea Fraser, the amount that"
"an openly gay performer. Back when I started, that was pretty rare. I was trained in the theater and I went to college for theater, and I decided to do drag as a way to express myself both in theater and as an activist. I always find that people who are able to do all of that an inspiration. I feel like Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler, early on, did that. ... [Midler] started in the bathhouses and gay men wrote her material. Of course she had the performance style to pull it off, but she also had gay men"
"on. Each girl begins to experience dizziness and feel as if she is ""being pulled from the inside out."" A woman suddenly appears climbing the rock in her underwear, shouting ""Through!"", and then faints. This woman is not referenced by name and is apparently a stranger to the girls, yet the narration suggests she is Miss McCraw. Miranda loosens the woman's corset to help revive her. Afterwards, the girls remove their own corsets and throw them off the cliff. The recovered woman points out that the corsets appear to hover in mid-air as if stuck in time, and that they"
"and spoke of the harassment and arrests of drag queens on the street, some of whom had been involved with the Stonewall riots. Lesbian Feminist Liberation's Jean O'Leary then insisted on responding by denouncing drag as misogynist and criticizing the march for being too male-dominated. This prompted Brewster to denounce anti-transgender lesbian feminists. The increasingly angry crowd only calmed when Bette Midler, who heard on the radio in her Greenwich Village apartment, arrived, took the microphone, and began singing ""Friends"". This was one of many events in early 1970s where lesbian and transgender activists clashed. Lee Brewster Lee Greer Brewster"
"her stance on global warming and gun control. She was also offended by Palin's support for Arctic oil exploration and by her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears. On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plan to make a biographical film on her life. She told him, ""Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life!"" otherwise ""sparks will fly"". In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers"
"legend that the brassiere was invented by a man named Otto Titzling (""tit sling"") who lost a lawsuit with ""Phillip de Brassiere"" (""fill up the brassiere"") originated with the 1971 book ""Bust-Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development of the Bra"" and was propagated in a comedic song from the movie ""Beaches"". In Germany employers and companies are permitted to require their female employees to wear a brassiere as part of the dress code, and may fire female employees who do not wear them. Mass-produced bras are manufactured to fit a prototypical woman standing with both arms"
"created an eight-woman handbra on the cover of the 2006 ""Sports Illustrated"" Swimsuit Issue and a photo of Marisa Miller covering her breasts with her arms and her vulva with an iPod in the 2007 Swimsuit Issue. The handbra was the subject of a pointed parody advertisement for ""Holding Your Own Boobs"" magazine performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar and Will Ferrell on the May 15, 1999 episode of ""Saturday Night Live"". The infamous braless pose was featured in raunchy music video ""HandBra"" performed by Sensual Sutton. In 2014 Playboy Enterprises made its Playboy.com website ""safe for work"" by covering nipples"
"the articles written for BUST from their first issue to 1998. Marcelle Karp Marcelle Karp, a.k.a. Betty Boob, (born 1964), is an American feminist writer, editor, and television director and producer. Karp worked as a television producer and director for Lifetime, Fox, and HBO; and has written for Spin, Details, and Jane magazines. In 1993 Karp and Debbie Stoller produced the first issue of ""Bust"", """"The Magazine for Women With Something to Get Off Their Chests"""", now seen as one of the flagship publications of third-wave feminism, mixing feminism with sexuality. ""Betty Boob"" was the name that Karp used in"
"them, writing No Fear on her back. Amy Odell from BuzzFeed said that criticizing the gesture based on her age sends ""a very archaic message"", adding that ""Women who are 53 still have breasts and... sex drives!"". Three days later, ""The Sun"" published an article entitled, ""Madonna was right to bare her boob at 53."" Three readers of the publication recreated the pose, photographed it, and sent it in to the publication to show their support for Madonna ""as a positive role model for older women."" While some initially claimed Madonna as ""clingy"" and ""desperate"", Sarah Angotti, also 53, counters,"
"that was preparing to out him. Other criticism concerning outing centers upon the harm that outing individuals as homosexual, transgender, or transsexual does to them personally and professionally and upon the fact that some individuals have been erroneously outed or have been outed when there is no proof to substantiate the claim that they are gay or transgender. Christine Jorgensen, Beth Elliott, Renée Richards, Sandy Stone, Billy Tipton, Alan L. Hart, April Ashley, Caroline Cossey (""Tula""), Jahna Steele, and Nancy Jean Burkholder were outed as transsexuals by European or American media or, in the case of Billy Tipton, by his"
"Lindahl and theater costume designer Polly Smith with the help of Smith's assistant, Hinda Schreiber. Lindahl's sister, Victoria Woodrow, complained about her bad experience exercising in ordinary bras, having experienced runaway straps, chafing and sore breasts. During the course of Lindahl and Smith's exploration for a better alternative, Lindahl's husband suggested that what they needed was a jockstrap for women's breasts. In the costume shop of Royall Tyler Theatre at the University of Vermont, Lindahl and Smith actually sewed two jockstraps together and nicknamed it a ""jockbra"". It was later renamed a ""jogbra"". One of their original Jogbras is bronzed"
"""People who are bipolar switch from feeling an energetic, 'high' and/or irritable to feeling sad and hopeless, and then back again. They often have normal moods in between. These 'up' and 'down' feelings are called mania and depression. If left untreated, bipolar disorder can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide."" Jenifer Lewis Jenifer Jeanette Lewis (born January 25, 1957) is an American actress, singer and activist. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in films ""Beaches"" (1988) and ""Sister Act"" (1992). Lewis"
"be enforced femininity. A local news story in the Atlantic City ""Press"" erroneously reported that ""the bras, girdles, falsies, curlers, and copies of popular women's magazines burned in the 'Freedom Trash Can'"". Individuals who were present said that no one burned a bra nor did anyone take off her bra. However, a female reporter (Lindsy Van Gelder) covering the protest drew an analogy between the feminist protesters and Vietnam War protesters who burned their draft cards, and the parallel between protesters burning their draft cards and women burning their bras was encouraged by some organizers including Robin Morgan. ""The media"
"Moore was again on the cover of ""Vanity Fair"", but this time she was dressed in two straps and a large red bow and was sitting on David Letterman's lap while he was dressed up as Santa Claus. Other celebrities have since posed nude or semi-nude while in advanced pregnancy, including Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears whose billboard advertisements led to great controversy. ""Newsweek"" referred to the pose more than a decade later, and ""The New York Times"" coined ""demiclad"" for the nude pregnant handbra pose. Eventually, ""Vogue"" and ""Harper's Bazaar"" included pregnant cover models, and ""Star"" included a pregnant"
"and on display near the costume shop of the theatre. Two others are housed by the Smithsonian and another by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1990 Playtex purchased Jogbra from Lindahl and her partners. This was followed by research by Christine Haycock, associate professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She measured breast movement of women running on treadmills. Sought out by bra manufacturers for her expertise, she advocated wide bottom bands for extra support and firm straps that minimized breasts bounce. Renelle Braaten, a Montana hairdresser, struggled to contain her"
"Selena Gomez wearing a see-through top. Another site featured a photo gallery titled ""#NoBraDay: 15 Celebs Who Frolick About With Their Fun Bags Freed"". Whether a woman wears a bra or not has progressed in some social circles from discussions about appropriate clothing to ""the body shaming and sexualizing of women"" and a ""societal debate on the equality of men and women, as it pertains to their bodies."" One woman commented, ""The reason is that I tried being braless, and I liked it better. It wasn't a political decision, except insofar as everything a woman does with her body that"
"your body talk... My body said ""Fuck you!!!"""") and it also includes the original version of the song ""Otto Titsling"", three years later re-recorded in the studio and prominently featured in the movie ""Beaches"". The album was released on CD for the first time in 1989. Unlike the rest of Midler's discography up to this point, this album was never reissued on CD and is currently out of print. Side A Side B Mud Will Be Flung Tonight Mud ""Will"" Be Flung Tonight is an album by the American singer and comedian Bette Midler. It is a live recording of"