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Coming across this ad featuring Anna Kournikova, two things struck me . . .
The first is that the most vehement Russophobes on the net always seem to be women. Think they might be jealous?
You can say that Russian women have a superior knack of flaunting what they’ve got. And then I remembered that, in the case of bras, there is perhaps some foundation for this view.
The first woman to design a proper bra with cups and cup sizes was Russian. Well, White Russian. She was Ida Kaganovich Rosenthal from Minsk, who emigrated to the US in 1907.
Quite a few women had patented early versions of the bra but none were quite as comfortable or becoming as Ida’s. In the war years the seamstress had sewn pockets in coat-linings for carrier pigeons - very high-tech messaging for WW1 spies - so Ida had ready expertise in making a cosy place for things soft, warm and vulnerable.
In the ’20s, bras were more of a flat wraparound. The boobs of the flappers didn’t flap at all. They wore what you might describe today as a push-down bra. So, the Russian girl’s invention was infinitely more feminine and, by 1925, its appeal enabled Ida to set up the Maidenform company. The rest, as they say, is history.
A complete chronology of the bra is here.
[...] Original post by copydude [...]
tsk tsk , too easy Mr. Copydude. But who invented pants? Ms. Eve from Eden? Ms. Eleanor Ape from Branchtree? I am investigating, let you know. strudel
white russian? ah, belarussian
White Russian refers to Belarus, Ukrainians, and those people living in those regions of the former USSR.
The Germans called them this during the war. I found that out from a woman who was a young girl working as a secretary for German officers during world war 2 and married an American GI after the war.
It is interesting to hear people from that part of the world talk. There is much that USA history does not teach.
Klod
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Anna Kournikova is one of the sexiest russian tennis players i have ever seen. Russian tennis players are really pretty eh.”*
Anna Kournikova is so damn sexy but Maria Sharapova is prettier-~`
i love the hair of Anna Kournikova, i love long flowing blonde hair~,`
i like both Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova, both are great players and both have great bodies -
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