jockstrap
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The modern day sports bra began life as a jockstrap.
From BBC ● May 10, 2022
From Niall Horan's toast to Russell Crowe’s jockstrap: celebrity auction items - ranked!
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2019
The host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” sent a jockstrap worn by Russell Crowe in the 2005 film “Cinderella Man” to the store in an effort to bring in customers.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2018
Oliver purchased the jockstrap and some other items and sent them to Anchorage, which has one of the last remaining big box store video chains.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2018
On Monday, there’s a plastic grocery bag looped through the handle of my locker, and my first thought is that it’s a jockstrap.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
Reserved as he was, Foster found it easy to befriend the middle-school boy who dutifully slipped on rubber gloves to pick up jockstraps and jerseys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2025
The designs cleverly incorporated leggings, jockstraps resembling codpieces, mystical talismanic pendants, and tear-shaped cutouts on thick knit sweaters that conjured up tales of yore.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
In 1928, Arthur Kneibler was hired by Cooper Underwear Company, where the "apparel engineer" introduced underwear briefs styled off of jockstraps.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024
She sewed two jockstraps together and the first Jogbra prototype was born.
From BBC ● May 10, 2022
Wearing heavy gloves, football helmets with steel face masks, and Bakelite jockstraps, the trainees parried and thrusted in training pits, then ran an obstacle course over which they had to knock down pugil-swinging attackers.
From Time Magazine Archive
