What was with those pointy bras of the 50s?

[yvr girl]

Did they not know how to make seamless ones yet? (Which begs the questions, why weren't they pointy before?) Or was the pointy look just HOT in the 50s.

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. they were used to quell pre-marital sex

if you got too close to the fun-bags, you'd poke an eye out...lol

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. They were an imitation of the "bumper bullets" on the cars

of the era. Yep, not joking. Back then, it was "sexy". To the men, anyhoo.

[obxhead]

3. hmmmm...

are you series!!!11!!

It does make sense though.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Although, come to think about it,

I'm not certain which was the imitation of the other... :rofl:

[Capn Sunshine]

18. other way 'round

seriously.

As a child of the 50's it was told to me more than once it was for support.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

19. Yes, you're right.

It makes more sense that way. Crazy times, eh?

[WCGreen]

5. Putting on a pundit hat....

I believe the bras were designed that way so that men would believe the women were in, for lack of a better word, a constant state of arousal...

This is probably why the baby boom occured....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. This design might have been partly responsible for that baby boom...

But a bigger part of the baby boom was that the men were returning from the war, and were ready to settle down and have families.....

:shrug:

[henslee]

7. Boobies were pointy back then. Evolution.

[NV Whino]

8. I think pointy bras

fall under "intelligent design" rather than evolution. Or maybe non-intelligent design.

[tuvor]

9. Not sure what you mean.

I need photos.

[sendero]

10. I think..

.... the pointy style was easier to manufacture. Basically a cone, requires only one sideways seam.

Personally, Madonna or not I find the cone tit unappealing. :)

[In_The_Wind]

11. I believe it was some man's misguided idea of makin' a woman look sexy.

:shrug: as if we weren't already sexy enough

[GrumpyGreg]

12. You mean the ice-cream cone bras? Awful !

[texanwitch]

13. I found this website, glad I missed the 50's

WEB RESULTS
Bra History - Bras After 1950 - A Fashion History of Bras
A bra history from 1950 to 2000. The fashion and costume history development of bras ... label all sold excellent bras that gave the correct pointed circular stitched conical shape of the era. Maidenform ... lighter, prettier and easier to wash. See 1950's Bra Adverts here. ...www.fashion-era.com/bras_after_1950.htm - 59k - Cached - Save - Block

[Bamboo]

14. Launch On Warning.

Post WWII culture was cheap and massed produced,other countries did not recover from WWII until the 60s.Two fabric cones were easy to mass produce along with tract houses,chung-king in a can and cars that Nader built his fame upon.Standardization of manufacture spread to everything so we got circumcision and boobs that looked like the nose cone of a missile.Pointless conformity like duck and cover led to pointed conformity in undergarments.America had the tallest buildings,the longest bridges,the greatest dams,there was nothing engineering could not make the envy of the known world.They were symbolic in the 60s when they were set free and now they make peace or war as it suits them.

[Floogeldy]

15. They're hot.

Best to leave them on during sex.

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[LostInAnomie]

16. Women back then had pyramid boobs.

Geez, don't you know anything!

[Floogeldy]

17. Stop teasing me.

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[just a girl]

20. The design is actually back....

... for larger breasted women that is.

There is something to the design that is supposed to be better on the back. They've tweaked it a bit, but the same basic torpedo look is there.

[Seabiscuit]

21. The designer knew someday they'd appear in Madonna videos.

[LaraMN]

22. Y'know how squirrels store acorns in their cheeks?

Well, that's where they kept their weed.

[Floogeldy]

23. i wANNA pARTY wITH yOU

[amitten]

26. Floogeldy. You. Are strange.

Just an observation, not an insult. But...you really are.

[Floogeldy]

27. Thanks

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[amitten]

29. Anytime, nutcheck. n/t

[redacted]

24. Torpedo tits. Plastified atomic-age modernity, those design lines make

sense, if you think about it. The "Modern Wonder" of it all.

And Madonna wore them in the early 90s too.

[NMMNG]

25. I always thought that look was hideous

Whenever I buy a bra I try it on first just to make sure I don't get that pointy look :puke:.

[ornotna]

28. The "sweater girl" look

They are still available. What a crazy world we live in.:crazy:
http://www.bulletbras.net/