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BEST IS THAT WOMAN?S BRA THAT PUTS HER MAN?S BLAH TO BLAW,
HIS LOVE SURGING A NEW DRAW, WITH PASSIONS GROWN WITH THAW ;
CITY OR STATE IMMATERIAL?IT MAY BE CUBA, WARSAW, LHASA, OR UTAH.
BUT GOD SAVE LADIES FROM A WRONG BRA THAT RESEARCHERS HAVE TO WITHDRAW.
The Irish wit, poet, and dramatist, Oscar Wilde [ 1856-1900 ], in his publication, ?Suitable Dress For Women Workers? had very rightly described FASHION as a big problem ; he had written : ?After all, what is fashion ? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of UGLINESS?so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.? The statement made by Oscar O?Flahertie Wills Wilde is fully corroborated by the regular changes being made in the designs of the bra.
A just released health news titled ?AN ?INTELLIGENT BRA? WITH SENSORS? has certainly made not only a catchy new story for the women, but has opened a new trend of fashion also [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7136248.stm ]. The effectiveness of this new ?software?, however, has yet to be verified by the women of the world.
As per the news, women who are sick and tired of their ill-fitting bras can now breathe a sigh of relief, for scientists in Australia have developed a so-called 'intelligent bra' with sensors. It is claimed that as many as 80 per cent of women wear the wrong bra, which increases the risk of pain and nerve damage caused by bra straps, particularly during exercise.
In June 2006, an expensive bra had attracted a great deal of attention at Guangzhou Department Store in the capital of Guangdong Province of China. This bra was fitted with 50 rubies along with 300 grams of gold, and was up for sale at the price of 500,000 Yuan ( US $ 62,500 ). By far this was the most expensive bra to have been put up for sale in the recent marketing history.
BOMBING AND KILLING WITH BRA
Submitting an additional but highly sensational and lethal use of bra, on November 28, 2007, a disabled female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber with explosives kept hidden in her bra blew herself up outside the office of the Tamil minister of a Sri Lankan Government, killing his secretary, and wounding two men from the minister?s security staff. It was believed that this attack was planned by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam ( LTTE ), and it was aimed at killing the Social Welfare Minister, Douglas Devananda?the lucky man who had already survived at least four previous attempts on his life. Mr. Devananda is regarded as a vocal opponent of the ( LTTE ), although years back he himself was a fighter of LTTE.
INVENTION OF BRA
Had the New York socialite, Ms. Mary Phelps Jacobs---the discoverer of modern brassiere---been alive today, she would certainly have got fainted to see the gold and rubies studded bra, priced at U. S. $ 62500 ( at a Chinese Department Store ), and also finding bra as a source of direct full-killing ( as happened in Sri Lanka ), besides ?half killing? of the men with the year-by-year changing beauty and fashion of the bras of modern ladies. Ms. Mary Phelps Jacobs had invented the basic form of modern bra in 1913, and had got a patent for it in 1914. She did good business for some time, but for want of publicity she could not do much to promote her bra further. That is why Mary sold the rights of her invented brassiere to the Warner Brothers Corset Company ( not related to film business ) in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, for just $ 1500.
Some people also claim that it was some Mr. Titzling who had invented the bra with the help of his assistant Hans Delving in 1912. They had reportedly designed the bra for a Swedish athlete named Lois Lung, who then sued a Frenchman named Phillipe de Brassiere for patent infringement in the mid 1930s. Similarly, one Marie Tucek also patented the first brassiere in 1893, but at that time it was called BREAST SUPPORTER, not BRA, but it looked very similar to the modern brassiere.
In 1994, through a book, titled DRESSED TO KILL, a singer, Sydney Ross and his friend Soma Grismaijerin, put forward a foolish theory that by wearing bras the normal function of the lymphatic system in and around the breast gets inhibited that results in a decreased removal of toxins from the breast and an increased occurrence of breast cancer. No body, however, took this theory seriously, hence it was shrugged off.
The 18th century English poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley ( who had died at the prime age of 30 ) had rightly said about the breasts and brassiere :
AND THE ROSE, LIKE A NYMPH TO THE BATH ADDREST
WHICH UNVEILED THE DEPTH OF HER GLOWING BREASTS
TILL FOLD AFTER FOLD, TO THE FAINTING AIR
THE SOUL OF HER BEAUTY-AND-LOVE LAY BARE
THE BRA AND ITS COUSIN, BLOUSE ---IN POLITICS AND MEDICINNE
It now appears, however, that the two soft-wears, the BRA and the BLOUS, have not remained personal items of the women, and also these are no longer confined to raising only the modesty and beauty of women. The bra and blouse have formally entered into the field of politics as well as medicine. Exactly 29 years ago, in December, 1978, there were heated discussions in the Indian parliament on these delicate commodities. Medical researchers have also taken up these TOUCU-ME-NOT items for clinical research. The then foreign minister of India, Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, during his trip to France ( in 1978 ), had requested the French Government to lift its ban on the import of Indian bras into France, by saying :
?AFTER ALL BRA IS A VERY SMALL ITEM, COVERING A VERY SMALL PORTION OF THE BODY.?
The French counterpart then retorted back by saying :
?BUT MONSIEUR, IT IS A VERY VITAL PORTION.?
The importance of bra can also be gauged from a U.S. incident, wherein a 38 year-old American woman, Mrs. Hannelore Nelson, employed in the U.S. army for 17 years, was dismissed from service in June 1978 for allegedly not wearing a brassiere at an official function. The woman in turn sued the army for wrongful dismissal, and ultimately won the case. As a result, the U.S. army was ordered to pay her a compensation of U.S. $ 3780 in the form of damages. Thanks to the bra that brought riches and prestige for the woman who did not even wear it.
In Glasgow ( U. K. ), Dr. Hugh Simpson, in 1976, used bra for detecting cancer of the breasts. Only one year earlier, in 1975, the U. S. Food and drug Administration ( F.D.A. ), at Washington, D.C., had used blouses containing 250 milligrams of CHLOR TETRA CYCLINE HYDROCHLORIDE ( Aureomycin ), an antibiotic for the treatment of bacterial enteritis ( inflammation of the intestine ) and pneumonia in calves, etc. The use of this technique was employed mainly in the treatment of diseased animals in slaughter houses. The treated animals became suitable for slaughter only after 24 hours of medicated blouse-tiding therapy.
A specialized bra may reduce pain for women recovering from heart surgery. Dr. Kathryn King, a University of Calgary researcher in Canada, says her study of 481 women in 10 cities across Canada suggests those who wore the bra had significantly less post-surgical breast pain and discomfort, compared to women in a control group. The soft, tight-fitting bra closes in the front with a zipper and has Velco straps. This allows the bra to adjust to changing breast sizes, which sometimes occur after surgery. The support bra also doesn't have any metal clasps that can interfere with X-rays.
By looking at the outcome of these techniques, it appears that there is now ample scope for further research in the field of ?BRA & BLOUSE THERAPY? which can simplify conventional course of treating MASTOPATHY ( breast diseases ). In fact, by now, the two strictly personal commodities--bra and blouse--of the women lib have come up open for more and more discussion and research.
Will it not be proper for every brassiere departmental store to hang on the wall the name(s) of those who had discovered and / or modified this wonderful sexy and essential item of this physical world. ?
Author : G. S. JOHAR
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