brassiere
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The film’s laughs come from empathy, not derision, when a brassiere saleswoman tut-tuts that Margaret is “not even a 32A.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
Only when DNA technology advanced to the point where a complete genetic profile could be developed from evidence gleaned from the girl’s brassiere could a solid link be made, Detective Leah Wagner said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2020
The US actress and singer, now 83, also patented a brassiere with hidden straps.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2017
On one subsequent dress, Versace wanted a longer train; on another she wished for the exposed brassiere to be blue and not white.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2016
What I see first is a picture: the Venus de Milo, in a black-and- white photo, with a mustache and a black brassiere and armpit hair drawn clumsily on her.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
“So girls started wearing corsets, girdles and brassieres over their clothes, and this then led to the trend for underwear as outerwear.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
With ceremony, Margaret calls the date she’s going with her mother to buy her first brassieres “Bra Day.”
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2019
The exhibition traces the history of brassieres, from their development as "bust supporters" in the 1860s through their wide adoption in the early 20th century to the introduction of Lycra in the late 1950s.
From US News ● Apr. 13, 2016
But brassieres aren’t designed for us—they get loose.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2013
Back in Georgia when my classmates started turning up in training brassieres, one after another, like it was a catching disease, I bobbed off my hair and vowed to remain a tomboy.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
