Another way of saying this is that as early as 1859, a man named Henry in Brooklyn, new york applied for a patent for his "symmetrical spherical breastplate", which is considered as the prototype of a bra. 1870, a newspaper advertisement tailored for Boston, promoting breast care for women with big breasts. At 1907, paul poiret, a French designer, specially designed a robe and declared, "My name is published in a bra with a free waist that goes down and up." I don't know what his design is, but it is considered as the invention of bra. In the same year, the word "bra" in the American version of Vogue began to be familiar and accepted.