The Evolution History Of The Little Secret Bra

Bras The emergence and evolution history of

As early as 1859, with the application for the patent of "symmetrical spherical mask" invented by New Yorker Henry, it was considered as the prototype of bra. In 1907, the French designer Paul? "I declare the decline of girdles and the rise of bras in the name of freedom," Bollie claimed. Although I don't know what he designed, he is regarded as the inventor of bra. In the same year, the word "brassiere" appeared in the American version of Vogue, and the bra began to be familiar and accepted by the public. Bras, more than any other clothing, can express two opposite desires - to cover the body while at the same time strengthening and displaying it. The sexual meaning and ritualized elements of bras constitute the history of women's contradictions: they not only obey and suppress the body through objective constraints, but also break taboos by subjectively projecting the body.

The struggle between "bra" and "corset" was popular in the 1960s and 1970s. The corset was made of dark black silk with fine cotton lining inside. The design is extremely complicated, with fine stitches. It uses 20 whale bones and 140 tie lines. Before the emergence of bras, women have worn such things for more than 400 years. The primary task of bras is to squeeze out the waist.

The waist band originated from the court. The unofficial history said that Queen Josephine of France was cheating and pregnant. In order to hide the truth, she wrapped the cloth around her abdomen with great effort, and then the effect of raising the breasts appeared. With fashionable low cut clothes, the breasts were clearly visible, which became a trend at the moment. Men think that girdling has formed a shocking image, only to cause indecency and lust, while women think it is convenient to display jewelry. On the eve of the emergence of the bra, the upper class women are still suffering from the oppression of wood lath, whale bone and leather corset. If they dare to take off the corset with loose posture, they are considered to be morally pathetic. Working class women and peasant women can't afford expensive corsets, which will hinder their work. They also have inexpensive corsets, chest ties, and no need for servants to help. At that time, the upper class had the absolute advantage of leading the trend, although Paul, the inventor of bra? Boris is a master of nobility, and his wife, who has taken off her corset, is only regarded as an astounding super fashionable person, and few people follow her.

In the middle of the 18th century, there was an anti girdling movement initiated by doctors in Europe. Under the banner of science, it fought side by side with the anti nanny movement. The famous remark came from a pamphlet written by a man named Bono in France: "The use of whale bones to bind the waist has led to the degeneration of human species, violated the laws of nature, increased the crisis of population decline, and degraded the quality of men. In other words, women are called to conceive men, but they let them be punished at the moment when they become pregnant." This selfish male view is really annoying, But the goal is the same as that of the early feminists. In 1876, the godmother of American female existentialism, Abba Goold Woolson, said in an anti waist binding speech: "I exist. The primary role is not wife or mother, but a woman. I have the right to exist as a woman. New women have the right to dress strong, comfortable and happy." Nobody listened to them, although waist binding has made women suffer, It also conforms to the "seduction principle" of men with pornography, but women make more use of sexiness than men to get ahead. As long as they don't take off their waistband, they have the possibility of getting into the upper class.

Bras prove that war and Muse can coexist. When World War I broke out, Germany and France also launched the war of "girding" against "bra". An advertisement published in the Leipzig News in Germany denounced the "bra" invented by Parisians as dangerous, and strongly promoted the real German spirit girdle, which buckled to the waist to give breast armor like support. However, the bra war was the same as the real war, and the French won the final victory. After the "World War I", it was one of the few flat chested fashion trends in history. Social girls tried to appear flat, so that the long string of pearl necklaces could go down smoothly. Rayon also came out. The price of bras was low, and the aristocratic men they wanted to seduce were getting worse and worse. Women had to go out to work. Convenient bras became the first choice. Then came World War II. The US government called on women to abandon the corset with a large amount of steel wires to support the battlefield. It is said that 28000 tons of steel were saved in three years, enough to build two warships. Just as Warner Bros. just got the bra patent, it timely launched a full cloth bra and designed a cloth vest for carrier pigeons, making a fortune in war.

Since then, whether big, small, pointed, round, girdles have never replaced bras. Today, bra has become a part of women's body. Women put her on and off every day, but they do not know that there is such a vast history and tragic struggle behind her. Bra, her contribution to women is not only physical, but also spiritual liberation.

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