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Old 01-18-2014, 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Jerry Irvine
I showed the pic to a girl who grew up in the 60's and she said bras with pointy tips on them were common then. Probably easier to fab than a form fitting one like today. Also wearing a bra was a social norm. Women burned their bras in the mid-60's and beyond.

Jerry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-KKYEubFu0

Although this is a rocket site and nobody seems to care what the rockets are . . . .
Even the term that "less generously-endowed" women used back then for strategically-placed powder puffs ("Gay Deceivers") might be considered offensive in some quarters today. Ironically, I learned that term from the play "The Glass Menagerie," whose playwright--Tennessee Williams--*was* gay...
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