Word: bra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netty, a French brassière, is displayed by a curvy salesgirl busily selling ties to two gallant Gallic gentlemen. Ever so often, as the salesgirl writhes closer to the counter, she dissolves like a nervous ghost, leaving only a suddenly unoccupied bra for her customers to gape...
Inge, familiar with peril, wandered to the lake [at the time Audie and Bill were struggling in the water] and immediately recognized an emergency. Not standing on ceremony, she stripped quickly to her bra and shorts before diving into the lake. She was no more exposed than had she been wearing a two-piece bathing suit. The sprint through the chilly water exhausted her too. But the three, acting as a team, took turns in holding each other up at intervals until they made the shore...
...floundered atop the submerged boat 350 yards offshore, an Austrian freelance photographer, Inge Morath, spotted them through her telephoto lens and went to the rescue. A handsome brunette and champion swimmer, Inge jettisoned her cameras and chopped out to the two exhausted men. There she resourcefully unhooked her bra, flung one strap to each man, towed them behind her as she breast-stroked safely ashore...
Steadfast Bra. The first bra on the market with Velcro, the nonmetallic, zipper-like fastener made of thousands of tiny nylon hooks and loops (TIME, Sept. 8), is being test-marketed by Charmfit of Hollywood. The bra fastens in the front, thus can be easily put on. Cost...
...basted Lazy River with a wild boogie beat. Her knees bounced up and down like runaway jackhammers. She jumped from her bench as if kicked by a mule, grimaced like an ulcer case on the way out, writhed like a belly dancer, sucked her thumb, tugged at her bra, groaned. Sometimes she struck some keys with her elbow, but she never missed a note, and her hands pounded away with incredible precision. Dorothy Donegan. 32, was giving the well-heeled, well-liquored crowd just what it came for, and the Embers, Manhattan's pseudo-ranch-style jazz joint, pulsed...