The origin of the bra can be traced back to 2500 BC on the island of Crete in the southeast of the Greek Peninsula. In order to highlight their exquisite figures, the women on the island use fabric to tightly wrap the lower edge of the breasts and tighten the waist. In this way, the supported breasts will stand up high. Modern bras date from the 18th century. It was designed as a tight-fitting tower to allow women to maintain a certain posture. However, due to insufficient comfort, it led to successive reforms. It was first divided into upper and lower pieces (turned into corsets and trousers) to prevent breasts from being squeezed and sagging. , in the 1830s, the first bra with cup specifications came out, which could more appropriately support and protect women's breasts. The bra was invented by the French in the 1920s. Its former name was corset, which appeared in the 18th century when women wore it to maintain their figure. However, because Corset was very uncomfortable, it gradually evolved into two pieces (corset and corset). Through the skill of Paris designers, the style became more and more simple, and finally evolved into today's bra and trousers. However, the amazing changes in bra styles only occurred in the past one or two decades. The English name for bra is Brassiere, which is often referred to as bra verbally. This undoubtedly comes from French. Around 1913, Jacob bought a very light and almost transparent tight-fitting women's evening dress, but her stiff and upturned corset with embroidered mesh ruined the smooth lines of this beautiful new dress. So Jacob thought of a way. She simply didn't wear a bra and sewed a simple "bra" with a pair of silk handkerchiefs and a few ribbons. She patented her simple invention in 1914, and although she never succeeded in bringing her invention to market, she did succeed in getting people to accept that she was the inventor of the bra. But as Jane Farrell Baker and Colin Gow point out in their recent book, Hold Up Your Breasts: Bras in America, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, that's not the case. The history of the bra dates back to at least the American Civil War, although it was known by several different names at the time. From then on, the braless revolution began. In 1863, a man named Luman Chapman applied for a patent for the "breast support" he invented. The purpose of the invention was to reduce the friction of the bras worn by women at that time. force. His "chest brace" had straps that crossed his back and knotted around his abdomen. To modern eyes, his invention may look like a scary plastic surgery device, but it was a huge improvement over the corsets of the time, at least in theory. This is true because it uses the shoulders rather than the waist to support the chest. Chapman's invention seems to have gone silent, but over the next few decades, doctors and early feminists promoted styles of women's underwear that were more "hygienic". Corsets that strongly restrained the body shape were very popular in that era, and women tightened the straps as tight as they could bear, even to the point of permanently deforming their internal organs. In 1876, there was a tailor named Olivia Flient in Boston. She applied for a patent for an invention that replaced tight underwear, called a "breast support garment." It could "maintain the beauty of a woman's body without having to wear it. Using belts or other methods to injuriously suppress and bind the body." Flint's lingerie and other similar designs had some limited success, but according to Farrell Baker, upper-class women at the time were dismissive of these new inventions. , in the minds of people at that time, not wearing a corset was associated with low moral character. Is it good to be a woman? Throughout the 20th century, the evolution of bras has been quite complex, both from an engineering and fashion design perspective. Bras initially replaced corsets and became popular purely for pragmatic reasons. However, as a fashion, they not only have the functional advantage of shaping the body shape, but also play a role in beautification and modification. By the late 1920s, bras were playing a more active role in shaping the breasts. The advertising slogan of the "Girl Shape" bra - "It is used to protect the breasts and adapts to the natural body shape of the human body, rather than the old idea that bras are used to flatten the breasts.
"The name "Girl's Body" itself is a challenge to the popular "boy-shaped" bras at the time. As the name suggests, its purpose is to create a body image that distinguishes men and women. This kind of bra uses shoulder straps and a strap that is held below the chest. The elastic band held up the breasts, providing "double support" along with its central bulge, which was an early form of the bra socket (the cup-shaped part of the bra that holds the breast). Bras did not have that kind of bulging part, because the role of bras at that time was mainly to restrain the breasts. The texture of early bras Early bra designers were often the ones who actively promoted the use of new fabrics, new materials and new manufacturing processes. . In 1931, people covered cotton, rayon or silk fabric with a layer of latex rubber yarn. This fabric had good elasticity, strong support and good sweat absorption function. However, the bra made of this fabric material was not strong and weak. Durable, latex rubber cracks and loses elasticity easily. Many new materials such as nylon and synthetic rubber were introduced throughout the 1930s, but the Great Depression and World War II prevented these new materials from being widely used in bras. In the evolution of bras, inventor and industrialist Howard Hughes is a famous figure. In 1943, he designed a seamless bra for actress Jane Russell in the movie "The Fugitive." The owner of the film studio, he personally went to the filming set to ensure that Russell's beautiful figure could be displayed to the best effect. In one scene, Hughes saw the seam of Russell's bra clearly visible, which made him feel uncomfortable. Frustrated, he said: "It's just a simple design issue. To solve this problem, he even worked late into the night, trying to perfect the design of a seamless bra. Years later, Russell recalled in her autobiography that Hughes' design made her feel "very uncomfortable and ridiculous." Instead of using Hughes's design, she used tissue paper to cover up the seams of a regular bra, something Hughes never could see. After the war, manufacturers had more new materials to choose from, such as Nylon, polyester, spandex (mostly used in belts, swimsuits, etc.), synthetic rubber and various blended fabrics are also available in various styles, including those with zippers on the front and Velcro fasteners. Strappy, retractable and retractable bras, and endless variations in straps, seams and straps.