Be thankful we do not have to use before wearing corsets, such as women in the 1800s. Imagine what kind of crowded the use of a corset? Not to mention the hell complicated because it uses a lot of rope corset in the back that had to be pulled by someone else to tie it.
For that, we must be grateful to Mary Phelps Jacobs, a writer in New York, who in 1913 accidentally "create" a bra. The story, on one day Mary bought a silk evening dress to come to the party. Bought a dress model does not allow to be used with clothes in the form of a corset. In addition to the corset would look out of the collar, it will also make the corset dress is not beautiful because it looks from the outside a thin dress it.
Mary did not run out of ideas. He took two silk handkerchiefs and a pink ribbon, and stitched up bra created for the first time. Since the show, many family members and colleagues who asked for a bra by Mary. Until November 3, 1914, Mary was honored as the owner of the patent "Backless Brassiere".
After obtaining the patent, Mary bra business growing more rapidly. He uses the name Caresse Crosby as a business name. Apparently after a few years of dabbling care of business, Mary found that her passion was not in that world. She
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