--- Sylvia Rognstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a movie made in the 60s that took place in the 1920s. > it's leading me to wonder what busty women wore for > bras then and would have given them the support they > needed. The only bras I've seen from the 1920s are
> flimsy little silk things with no structure at all. > And what would you use on a busty actress today to > help give her that proper 1920s look? > > Sylvia Rognstad I'm not at all sure that 'support' per se was aimed at. The previous decade or two positively encouraged sagging breasts for all the corsetry. I'm thinking more 'flattening'. And try to find something like Sears catalogs of the relevant year or years, as they catered to more ages than just the young, svelte, pre-flattened or boyish girl's figure. >From Tara McGinnis's website: <http://www.costumes.org/history/20thcent/1920s/bernardhewettcat/pg24.jpg> some 'corsolettes' in the center of the page. Despite the extremes of the fashion sketches, ordinary women, and even manequins, were expected to have a bit of softness to their figures. Ann in CT ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
