When did the bra originate?

The girdle originated in the court. Unofficial history said that Queen Josephine was having an affair. She wrapped a piece of cloth around her abdomen to cover her eyes and ears, but it had the effect of raising her chest. Wearing fashionable low-cut clothes, her breasts were clearly visible, which became a trend for a while. Men think that girding the waist forms a shocking image just to arouse lewdness and lust, but women think it is convenient to display jewelry. The origin of the bra is confusing. As early as 1859, a man named Henry in Brooklyn, new york, applied for a patent for his own "symmetrical spherical bra", which was regarded as the embryonic form of the bra. 1870, a tailor in Boston also advertised in the newspaper to sell "chest pads" for women with big breasts. At 1907, paul poiret, a French designer who specializes in designing robes, declared, "In the name of freedom, I announced the decline of corsets and the rise of bras." Although I don't know what he designed, he is considered as the inventor of the bra. In the same year, the word "bra" appeared in the American version of Vogue, and bra began to be familiar and accepted by the public. In view of the status of paul poiret and American Vogue in the fashion world, we think that bras will be from 1907 to 1000. Bras, more than any other clothes, can express two opposite desires-covering the body and strengthening and showing it at the same time. The sexual significance and ritualized components of the bra constitute the contradictory history of women: objectively binding the obedience and repression of the body, and subjectively highlighting the body's breaking taboos.