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Lingerie
Women's underwear and nightclothes
During the 13th to 14th century , most women left their breasts
unsupported .
Tailors developed techniques to produce body - conscious
garments through shaped pattern pieces , whereby the breasts
were evident even if not emphasized.
At the end of the 14th century , the medieval period gave way to
the Renaissance , when the appreciation of beauty was renewed .
History
Crazy Corset Years
for modesty.
Girdles
History
Before the invention of crinoline, women's
underwear was often very large and bulky.
The brassiere or bra was born at the early 20th century just
after the decline in the popularity of corsets in the late 19th
century .
The early bra invention was based on an idea to use shoulder
straps and cups to support the weight of the breast in order to
make a garment that was more comfortable to wear and
healthier than corsets
History
In 1889, corset maker Herminie Cadolle invented
le bien-être,or the "Well-being."
For women's comfort she had cut the traditional
corset in two. She had invented the first BRA
which she patented and initially called the
"corselet gorge“ or the soutien-gorge ("support for
the breast" in old French), and would almost Cadolle’s Corset
blend-in with modern underclothing if you saw it
on a shelf today.
Her garment effectively cut the traditional corset in
two. The lower part was a corset for the waist, the
upper supporting the breasts by means of shoulder
straps.
Lady Duff-Gordon of Lucile was a pioneer in
developing lingerie that freed women from more
restrictive corsets.
she launched liberating slit skirts and low
necklines, popularized less restrictive corsets, and
promoted alluring, pared-down lingerie.
History
The early half of the 1900s saw marked improvements and developments in
the continuing saga of the bra.
The new invention was later brought to the lingerie industry and
marketed as the ‘Magic Bra’.
The ‘Smart Bra’ was made of a fabric with a coating of conducting polymer
that made it contract when the strain on it passed a pre-set level, so as to offer
instant customized support to match the movement. The Conducting polymers
were ‘doped’ with chemicals that changed their atomic structure so that they
conducted electricity.
The technology has resulted in a commercial prototype for active women who
suffer from breast pain due to the displacement of breasts during motion.
The Techno Bra
The Techno Bra, developed by Kirsty Groves, a design student at the Royal collage of Arts in
London,
Featured a heart monitor, GPS (Global positioning System) locator and wireless phone. All of
which were discreetly concealed within removable gel pads.
The bra is made up of special fabric (electricity-conducting fabric) that transmits the wearer’s
pulse to the monitor,, which is sensitive enough to distinguish between changes in heart rate
induced by exercise and those resulting from fear.
If the bra detected a rapid jump in heart rate, the GPS system established the location and
informed the police via the wireless phone. Once the monitor detected a sudden change in the
wearer’s heart beat, she had 30seconds to deactivate the bra if it was a false alarm. Otherwise the
GPS satellite received a signal, determined the location of the wearer and dispatched a text
message to local police or to a close relative or friend’s phone.
The reasearch was supported by ProActiv, who provided the heart-monitoring sensors for the
prototypes.
The fabric developed for use in filteration system was machine washable.The battary and fail-
safe button were built into the front clasp and the electronics could be removed before
laundering .
The Techno Bra will initially be aimed at women as a security device, but it could easily be
adapted for patients with heart trouble or built into a T-shirt for use by women and men as an
exercise monitor. Several companies have expressed an interest in bringing the Technobra to
market.
The Electronic Bra
Researchers at De Montfort University in England have invented an ‘electronic bra’
to detect cancer using electrical pulses.
They hoped the technology could provide earlier warning of cancerous growths
within the breast without the use of radiation.
The bra contains electrodes that send tiny electrical currents to breasts. This allows
doctor to build up a computer image that identifies the tissue.
Scientists have developed a cancer-scanning device which is worn as a bra and
finds tumours with electrical pulses. Researchers from De Montfort University in
Leicester designed the bra, which they believe could be as effective, or even more
effective than traditional x-ray mammograms, while being safer and cheaper. It uses
tiny electrical currents which are passed through the breast, working on the
principle that the differences between healthy breast tissue and tumour tissue affect
the way the current gets through. The denser tissue in tumours makes it harder for
the electricity to get through, and sensitive measuring equipment picks this up. By
"scanning" the breast from many different angles, a detailed map on which
abnormal growth stands out can be constructed on a computer. So far, testing has
been restricted to tissue samples in the laboratory, but the research team is
confident that tests on humans will prove the value of the device [34].
The concept was brilliant, but the implication was more difficult than expected. A
reported the project has been discontinued. This states that the complete process of
innovation is not so easy.
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