Happy Birthday and Thanks For the Support

It's the 100th anniversary of the invention of the brassiere. (I could've sworn I have bras in my dresser that are older than that.)

1907 The first undergarment resembling the brassiere as we know it is born, as its name reflects, in France. An alternative to the rib-crushing, vital-organ-squishing corset, this new invention manages to lift, if not quite separate, without the use of busks or whalebone, according to noted breast historian Marilyn Yalom. Read more