100 years of the bra
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Image: Courtesy of Triumph and and www.figleaves.com
1913 - American socialite Mary Phelps Jacob.
(Later known as Cresse Crosby) buys a sheer evening dress and, not wishing to wear a corset, fashions her own underwear
from two silk handkerchiefs and some ribbon. She is granted the first UK patent for the brassier the gollowing year.
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