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Bralessness is the state of not wearing a brassiere as part of a woman's underwear. Women may choose to not wear a bra due to discomfort, health-related issues, their cost, or for social and cultural reasons. As of 2006, about 10% of Australian women did not wear a bra. [1] Surveys have reported that 5–25% of Western women do not wear a bra ...
Literature from Ancient Greece suggests the use of a specialized garment meant to support and contain women's breasts. In Book 14 of Homer's Iliad, written in the archaic period of classical antiquity, Homer refers to Aphrodite's "embroidered girdle" (Ancient Greek: κεστός ἱμάς, kestós himás) as being "loosed from her breasts", indicating a decorated breast-band rather than a ...
Development of the underwire bra started in the 1930s, [139] though it did not gain widespread popularity until the 1950s, when the end of World War II freed metal for domestic use. [ 140 ] [ 141 ] Aviator and filmmaker Howard Hughes ' overemphasizing of Russell's cleavage prompted the MPAA to take actions against the film and use the term ...
Thanks to her incredible hair, amazing fashion and a transformation from rich daddy's girl to high-flying fashion buyer, fans were kind of obsessed with everything she did - and, er, does.
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
In the United States, individual states have primary jurisdiction in matters of public morality.The topfreedom movement has claimed success in a few instances in persuading some state and federal courts to overturn some state laws on the basis of sex discrimination or equal protection, arguing that a woman should be free to expose her chest (i.e., be topless) in any context in which a man can ...
Holly Marie Combs appeared on a panel at 90s Con on Saturday, according to People. Combs, 48, said it was suggested she wear a push-up bra during her time on "Charmed."
Some feminists began arguing in the 1960s and 1970s that the bra was an example of how women's clothing shaped and even deformed women's bodies to male expectations. In 1964, Professor Lisa Jardine described her dinner with Australian writer and public intellectual Germaine Greer during a formal college dinner in Newnham College, Cambridge :