
After being invented in 1914 by Mary Phelps Jacob to replace the uncomfortable corset, the bra started out as a piece of clothing exclusively for women. Girls who started to develop with puberty, but who didn’t have enough breasts to fill an “adult” bra, usually wore a slip or vest under their clothes. A few years later, some models of bras for teenagers began to shyly develop. But this piece only became popular in the ’50s, when the media started […]