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Bras in Ancient Rome Erin Blakemore wrote in National Geographic History: Though its unclear when the first of the bras many precursors was invented, historians have found references to bra-like garments in ancient Greek works like Homers Iliad, which depicts the goddess Aphrodite removing a curiously embroidered girdle from her bosom, and Aristophanes Lysistrata, in which a woman withholding sex from her husband teases him by saying shes taking off her strophion, clumsily translated as breast-band. [Source Erin Blakemore, National Geographic History, October 4, 2023] Scholars are divided on whether Greek and Roman women wore bra-like garments for support, style, or both
It looked like a new Celtic revivalism in the 1950s as Elizabeth McCrum explains in her book ( Fabric & Form Irish Fashion since 1950 ): Designers of the 1950s were highly aware that their Irishness was their great marketing strength
Suggests customization and adjustment tipssuch as tuning waistlines, adjusting shoulder seams, or adding ease to make the pattern more personally flattering and wearable
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