The bra

« In antiquity and during the middle ages there is a substitute of what is called a bra, but the real first modern bra appears much later. • Antiquity: at the time of the Greeks and Romans women wore wide strips of cloth draped around their bodies • Middle Ages: We stop hiding women’s breasts and start highlighting them • 16th to 20th: It is the appearance of the corset that aims to tighten the waist to bring out the hips and the chest.

They are made of wood and metal.

But the corset has disadvantages because it causes health problems • Appearance of the first bra: on June 27, 1889 it is at the Universal Exhibition of Paris that Hermine Cadolle presents a corset which is separated into 2 parts.

It is only in 1914 created by the American Mary Phelps Jacob that the first bra with cups appears The Women’s Lib is an abbreviation for the Women’s Liberation Movement in the United States. Since the 1960s, women who join this movement have been protesting against all forms of sexism and discrimination against them and demanding real equality of rights with men. This movement appeared in France in the 1970s. In 1968, American women protested against the Miss America beauty pageant in New Jersey. At this demonstration there was the 'freedom trash can'' the idea was to throw in this trash can symbolically the things that oppressed women (whose bra). It is also at this demonstration that the image of the woman who burns her bra appeared because of a journalist but no fire has taken place, it is only a myth. Fifty years later, women’s rights are back at the forefront of U.S.

news, with women’s marches and #MeToo making headlines. The #MeToo movement is a social movement that encourages women to speak out, to raise awareness about rape and sexual assault.. »