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The underwire is made of metal, plastic, or resin. [95] [13] The antecedents for underwire in bras date to at least 1893, when Marie Tucek of New York City patented a breast supporter, a sort of early push-up bra made of either metal or cardboard and then covered with fabric. [70]
The wire may be made of metal, plastic, or resin. It is sewn into the bra fabric and under each cup, from the center gore to under the wearer's armpit. Many different brassiere designs incorporate an underwire, including shelf bras, demi bras, nursing bras, and bras built into other articles of clothing, such as tank tops, dresses and swimsuits.
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]
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."
Following the book's publication, by Macdonald in London and by Prentice-Hall in the USA, the hoax name has appeared in the game Trivial Pursuit (fooled by the hoax, the gamemakers listed Otto Titzling as the "correct answer" to the question of who invented the brassière), on the TV show Hollywood Squares in the late 1980s (John Davidson's ...
Between 1870 and 1910, the marriage rate among educated women in the United States fell to 60% (30% lower than the national average). By 1893, in the state of Massachusetts alone, some 300,000 women were earning their own living in nearly 300 occupations. The invention of the typewriter in 1867 was a particular spur.
Ida Rosenthal (née Kaganovich; January 9, 1886 – March 29, 1973) was a Belarusian-born American dressmaker and businesswoman who co-founded Maidenform.Ida is considered to be the creator of the modern bra and her company Maidenform went on to become the most successful bra manufacturer in the world.
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 .