Today is the birthday of bra

The first patent of bra named Caresse Croby was given to Mary Phelps Jacob on September 3 of 1914. She, refusing the rigid corset, started using garment consisting of 2 pieces of cloth and a strap. Her husband, who was working at a corset company, offered the novelty to his executives, who acquired it from Mary with $1500. It was quite a large sum for the time: for $ 260 you could buy a car.
In 1920s bra was still being called soft corset.
In 1930's Ida Rosenthal founded a company with her huband in the United States, which, for the first time, started to produce bras, having cups of various sizes and elastic ties. In 1932 bra starts to alter. Already in 1935, the little pillows were invented, which were put in bra, making breasts more pronounced. The A to D numbering was introduced as well.