April 4, 2012
A new study shows that 80 percent of Australian women wear bras that don’t fit. A separate study had similar results, with 85 percent of women wearing the wrong bra. We all like to tell ourselves that our bras fit perfectly fine. Because, let’s face it, fitting rooms suck and we want to get out ...
September 28, 2011
Scientists at the Breast Health Unit (yes, that exists) are working hard to develop a sports bra that actually works. They are studying why jogging hurts so darn much and how they can make it stop. The answer combines physics and breasts into a study that could come straight from the mind of a 13-year-old ...
Tags: boobs,
bra,
breast health,
breast pain,
female athletes,
physics,
science,
sex,
sports bra,
study,
women's health
August 12, 2011
If you’ve ever seen the movie Coyote Ugly, you were probably mildly entertained for the hour-and-a-half you sat through it and then put it in the dark recesses of your mind. Recently, it all came flooding back to me as I stepped into a Manhattan bar. My wildest dreams would come true if certain movies ...
Tags: alcohol,
bar scene,
bra,
club district,
Coyote Ugly,
dancing on bar,
drinking,
entertainment industry,
freedom,
fuming feminist,
lingering sexism,
Manhattan,
money,
nudity,
sexism,
sexist,
sexual economics,
social roles,
spending money,
traditionalism,
transaction
July 22, 2011
Security measures are implemented to protect people from harm, but when journalists are forced to remove their undergarments, we question the necessity of such a breach of privacy. The security team of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently forced female journalists to take off their bras before attending press events, according to an ABC News ...
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu,
bra,
bra-gate,
braless,
breach of privacy,
FDA,
female journalists,
Foreign Press Association,
Israel,
Najwan Simri Diab,
pregnant,
press event,
prime minister,
privacy,
security officers,
Shin Bet,
strip search,
terrorism
April 1, 2011
No doubt you read about Abercrombie’s new bikinis for little girls — the one that is essentially a waterproof push-up bra. As expected, most parents reacted with disgust, panic, rage, shock, etc. and vowed to never, ever, ever let their little Stephani be sexualized by corporate America. But some parents liked the top — for ...
October 15, 2009
Finally there is a device that can be used to fix women’s bras when the underwire goes haywire. The Bra Angel was introduced at the British Invention Show and will be in stores in the high streets soon. This is a useful product, and not too expensive with a twin pack costing 3.45 Euros ($5.27). ...