Bras!
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
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The History of the Bra
In 1899, a French department store ad depicted the first modern-ish bra. It was essentially a corset separated into two pieces without like that middle section making it all one thing. The initial name for it was a colcelet gorsch. By the 1930s, they started shortening it to bra in the U.S. because we don't speak French.
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