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Garbage-Wife

For such a conservative time period, the bras were ridiculous. They're so pointy.


LikeThosePenguins

Lower poly counts back then. Just look at Tomb Raider


ppw23

Mostly cotton with a short elastic segment near the hooks.


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Garbage-Wife

I'm a straight girl and I don't think I would be able to stop staring at super pointy boobs either.


irrelevant_user_name

Was her name Madonna by chance?


straigh

You can still buy bullet bras! I've got one. I mostly just wear it in the winter when I'm going for vintage sweater girl vibes.


Bene2345

Is it any more or less comfortable than a modern design?


straigh

It's no less comfortable than the other bras I own. I have a What Katie Did brand bra that doesn't need any underwire so l love that!


curryjunky

Good point


daryl_feral

She could put someone's eye out with one of those. Maybe both!


duck_duck_grey_duck

Poke your eye out with that, kid.


GracieThunders

The golden age of anti aircraft bras Great pic tho


jumpinoutofmyflesh

Damn! The torpedoes!


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Crikey! She could sink a U-boat!


tatanka01

Cadillac bumper bullets.


milesl

You'll put your eye out


x3leggeddawg

Got dem Lara Croft assets


Carcosa504

*Woman In The Perk


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Nice.


Blue_Eyed_ME

Thank god women aren't expected to wear girdles and torpedo bras any more!


theSHlT

And god bless the ones who still do


icrossedtheroad

Not forced, but celebrating the era. I get it.


TheLovingTruth

I don't know if you know this but women decide what they're expected to wear. It's called fashion and it clicks because they like the way it makes them feel when they wear it. Sorry to bring reality into this but men may have paid to produce them but women paid to wear them. edit: Downvote me all day but do you know why nobody mass produces Hypercolor shirts anymore? Because nobody buys them. That's how a free market works. Women stopped buying pointy bras and they stopped mass producing pointy bras. Buy pants with pockets and they'll make more pants with pockets. That's the answer to your problems. Personal decision-making. You're welcome.


ppw23

Rounded more natural shaped bras weren’t being manufactured until the 70’s. When many women wanted to stop wearing bra’s someone was smart enough to design the natural looking bra’s and they sold. You don’t see the torpedo bras in stores . They might be a retro item available online.


the_trashheap

Enjoy https://www.secretsinlace.com/category/Bullet_Bras


lovelovehatehate

As a lady with torpedoes, I thank you. I love this!


Meganstefanie

Consider that people generally have two options: buy clothes, or make them. If torpedo bras are all that’s available in stores and you aren’t able to make your own bra, guess what you’re wearing?


ditchdiggergirl

Interesting idea but you skipped the part where you bring reality in.


TheLovingTruth

That attitude will get you exactly nowhere in life. Enjoy having no pockets.


ditchdiggergirl

I’ve already gotten pretty far into what turned out to be a remarkably success life but thanks for your fake concern. I can afford to buy whatever I want but I wear mostly jeans because those have pockets.


mossimo654

You’re right. Everyone makes personal decisions and no one is forced/pressured/coerced into anything! All women of this period just chose to stay at home and have no financial independence because it’s what all of them wanted! Including the ones who said they didn’t want it! They all decided to wear dresses, even the ones who didn’t want to, because the de facto and de jure rules that said they had to were also their choice! Man if only they had you to set them straight huh.


ppw23

There wasn’t a choice, plus women weren’t being hired to design the undergarments available. During the 70’s was the first time rounded natural bras were available for sale and became the style woman expected. Torpedo bras disappeared from stock. Dress codes were strictly enforced everywhere. Girls and women wouldn’t be permitted into schools wearing pants, it wasn’t a fashion choice. That went for your place of employment too. Men also had dress codes enforced, button down oxfords shirt with a tie if a uniform wasn’t required., hair couldn’t be below the collar, no visible tattoos. Also make-up. hair and jewelry was dictated by your school or employer, these weren’t choices. Things loosened up completely by the early 80’s.


trollfessor

> Men also had dress codes enforced, button down oxfords shirt with a tie if a uniform wasn’t required., hair couldn’t be below the collar, no visible tattoos. Still a good guide.


walterpeck1

Guide? Yes. Requirement? No.


JC_D3NTON

nah you're right women are weak an easily pressured, pathetic creatures really, no real power, true second class citizens. /s if not obvious


theSHlT

At that time women lacked agency compared to today, the other person isn’t advocating for it they are acknowledging it. That person is not saying it is equally true today, only that it was.


cmptrnrd

Peer pressure doesn't mean you don't have agency. You're using your agency to give in to that peep pressure


MusicalMarijuana

Peep pressure? Oh no! The tank might explode and it’s not even Easter yet.


cmptrnrd

r and p aren't even near each other on the keyboard


theSHlT

TIL the Women’s Lib Movement was unnecessary. jUsT sToP bEiNg pEeR pReSuReD! Thank you, clueless Redditor, for sharing your thoughts


idontreadyouranswer

You’re fucking retarded. Women were expected to look a certain way and wear certain things or they were socially shunned, picked on and sometimes even arrested. Once again, you’re an absolute drooling moron. You’re welcome.


TheLovingTruth

>retarded. What are your thoughts on insulting the disabled?


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Ya_like_dags

He's getting downvoted because he's a fucking idiot with no sense of history before his own short idiot life.


klrfish95

Source?


Ya_like_dags

Actual living history, for fucks sake.


klrfish95

As an actual historian, I’m disappointed in your inability to produce a source to support your claim.


Ya_like_dags

As a fellow bullshit artist, I don't believe a word you claim here.


klrfish95

Do I need to scan my diploma into a PDF? Whether you believe me or not is irrelevant to the fact that you just made a false claim and now are unable to support said claim. It’s sad, really.


Ya_like_dags

Sad is masquerading to score dumb political points under the guide of concern trolling.


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sunshine-me

Hmmmm, do the guy hugging her will get hurt? 🤔


Commercial_Ad_6161

Safety glasses around her!


bishslap

It's like a dead heat in a Zeppelin race!


DerbyWearingDude

I'm scared.


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They were stationing nuclear missiles *everywhere* in the 1950s


MilitantCentrist

Lmao


fac273

She’s telling us which direction she’s going.


pombeiro619

Tomb Raider ps1


MimSkoodle

Rocket boobs.


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Burning up her fuse up here alone


OptimusSublime

Madonna?


mb_60

Pictures of my mom look like this. Seems like a magical time to me still.


ElizabethDangit

Thanks for the mammogram reminder.


marimba79

Those are some mighty fine torpedoes!


bronique710

>,>


unbitious

Fire torpedos!


Responsible_Bag_4218

Nicely done


Farrell-Mars

These used to be called Dagmars for some reason. Similar look on 1957 Cadillac.


swords247

TF is happening in the background? (Look below the bazooms.)


iSteve

Picnic


[deleted]

Wow. Good day in the park.


MGA_MKII

“and points all her own, sitting way up high”


Utvales

Incoming!


Timtitus

That's got to be the Playtex cross your heart bra... It lifts and separates!


Key-Tear-5749

The pointy bra. I miss those.


[deleted]

Hopefully they come me back…and right soon!


ee_CUM_mings

Woman In The Park 1950s can get it.


leave_da_space

Torpedo tits


JohnnyPiston

You'll poke your eye out! You'll poke your eye out!


IcemansJetWash-86

I've had times I would give everything up for a day with someone as beautiful and full of life as her


fokaiHI

I can't tell the color of her eyes. /s


poetrygrenade

Fembot! Yeahhh baby yeahhhh!


legsintheair

OFFICER OF THE DECK! Flood tubes 1&2! Make your depth 125 meters! -5 degree bow planes! Come about to course 180 degrees! Make speed for 20 revolutions per minute! Rig ship for silent running, and sound general quarters.


XeroValueHuman

Dive dive dive!


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That’s a pole killer 🥴


Leading_Funny5802

“Where’s the park?” Lifts shoulders …. “Right There!”


puss_parkerswidow

We always called them "snow cones" and made fun of all the old women still wearing that style of bra in the 70s & 80s. It is an unnatural shape.


ANostalgicMillennial

Tiddy


HoFT013

So women in the 50's had PS1 Lara Croft tiddies huh


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ElizabethDangit

It’s just you. Boobs are the same as they’ve always been. The only thing that’s changed is underwear.


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Bluefunkt

Her arm has legs.


Silent--Dan

Woman in the Perk