Posted on 04/11/2013 12:45:35 PM PDT by posterchild
Marilyn Monroe slept in a bra to keep her assets firm and perky, according to Hollywood lore. A new study out of France suggests it might have been more effective for the screen goddess to go "au naturel" instead.
Researchers spent 15 years studying the breasts of over 330 French women, and concluded that wearing a bra does not prevent sagging or ease back pain as commonly thought. "Medically, physiologically, anatomicallybreasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity, Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, from the University of Besançon, told France Info Radio. "On the contrary, they get saggier with a bra."
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I had hopes for this thread but I think its doomed.
Don’t complain, contribute!...then we’ll judge your offering!
Ever visit Portland, Oregon? Lots of aging hippies there.
Most of the sneakers are C cups...
Believe me, my interest is purely scientific...
Interesting... I'll have to tell my wife about this.
Was this a paid position, or did guys just volunteer?
or recent Susan Sarandon ones ...
You’ll not find dust collecting on her floors.
Thought I had read an article a few years back where some scientist in Texas had developed a fabric that would allow people that would (or should) wear bras the opportunity to wear the fabric in the form of a shirt/blouse and not need a bra but would also afford the wearer the privacy of the nipples not being observed by others.
Thus, the age of the nipples being predominant in cold circumstances was, for all practical purposes, eliminated.
The Female Fashion World figured a MAN had finally discovered something that helped them.
The inventor was found beaten to death in a field and the estimate is/was that 3 to 4 hundred men were involved in the beating.
~Boobs~ are not what goes in one of those.
:)
Possibly it depends on the size of the breasts?
A photographic analysis will be necessary.
My mom and her mom *slept* in their bras.
They both got it.
I’m totally free of it beyond the age when it first hit them.
I only wear one when I *have* to.
Fellas, Lounging on the beach with a magnum of chilled wine does not a study make.
I am ASTOUNDED that this post merits 94 replies........
I’m also disappointed that there isn’t more photographic proof of concept......
RLTW.
I would've thought girdle, but...
Unfortunately, the seismic disturbance generated by the first sneeze caused a break of film in the camera.
—— Im totally free of it beyond the age when it first hit them. -——
It sounds like this would be worth studying.
I’m happy for you.
Compare an African tribe pictures from National Geographic and compare the average American woman.
Yeah, this study seems less than accurate.
HA! I just posted the exact same thing!
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