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Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1892 – January 24, 1970) [1] was the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra, [2] an American patron of the arts, a publisher, and the woman Time called the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris."
She won a bronze medal for her designs at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association in 1878, at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta from 1884 to 1885, and at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. [23]: 171 According to Life magazine, Herminie Cadolle of France invented the first modern bra in 1889. [24]
A bra, short for brassiere or brassière (US: / b r ə ˈ z ɪər /, UK: / ˈ b r æ s ɪər, ˈ b r æ z-/; French:), is form-fitting underwear that is primarily used to support and cover a person's breasts. A typical bra consists of a chest band that wraps around the torso, supporting two breast cups that are held in place by shoulder straps.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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Invented in the 1940s, [8] they were fashionable in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, before softer, more natural-looking bras became fashionable again. They were associated with " sweater girl " pin-ups .
Indentured immigrant from England to British colony of Massachusetts; Printed for Elizabeth Glover's press, the first in the British colonies Gregory Dexter — (1610–1700) Printer, Baptist minister, early President of the combined towns of Providence and Warwick in the Colony of Rhode Island .
Samuel Cole (c. 1597–1666/67) was an early settler of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, arriving with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. He was an innkeeper and confectioner, and in 1634 established the first house of entertainment in the colony, called Cole's Inn and referenced by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his play John Endicott as the ...