- 1. Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... Apparently, as challenging as the societal restrictions were for women in Midge’s day, the clothing restrictions took things to a whole other level. “Between the corsets and the girdles, the straps that ...
- Created on 07 April 2021
- 2. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- ... By Kelly Kathleen This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today! More from BUST The Surprising History Of Women And Pockets Girdles May Have ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 3. How a Pin Helped Mid-Century Women Slow Down Speeding Suitors
- (Feminism)
- Red Light, Green Light In 1947, Women’s Wear Daily reported on a fad for novelty pins among “college girls,” who loved their “pearls and sorority pin” but would “never turn down an item that’s an ...
- Created on 06 October 2020
- 4. How These Women Cartoonists Shaped the Flapper Image in the Roaring ’20s
- (Arts)
- ... edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today! More from BUST A Brief History Of Flappers, Some Of The Original Rule-Breakers Girdles May Have Been Uncomfortable, But They Sure Beat Corsets The Legacy ...
- Created on 10 August 2020
- 5. The Surprising History of Women and Pockets
- (Style)
- There’s a scene in the 1917 film Poor Little Rich Girl when Mary Pickford, the adult actress portraying the 11-year-old title character, is punished for naughtiness by being forced to turn in her frilly ...
- Created on 13 May 2020
- 6. A Comprehensive History Of Women's Underwea
- (Style)
- It’s a brave woman who lives her life eternally sans knickers (or panties, for you Americans) but until very recently, it was the norm. Though men throughout history wore underwear (Charles ll ...
- Created on 12 April 2019
- 7. Girdles May Have Been Uncomfortable, But They Sure Beat Corsets
- (Style)
- Women’s lib protesters tossed girdles into the “Freedom Trash Can” at the 1968 Miss America Protest organized by New York Radical Women because they symbolized “a false beauty standard,” not to mention, ...
- Created on 31 January 2019
- 8. Gloria Steinem And Kathleen Hanna On Feminism, Riot Grrrl, And The Sexual Revolution: From The BUST Archives
- (Feminism)
- ... there are some symbols that were so forced on us in my youth that it’s hard for me to understand them as a free choice. Like girdles, garter belts, and very high heels that you can’t run in…but even if ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 9. The Bloody History Of Menstruation Management
- (Living)
- ... Basically! There’s a lot of evidence that women wore girdle-like contraptions to keep their rags in place. Queen Elizabeth I actually owned a snazzy set of black silk girdles specifically for use during ...
- Created on 25 May 2018
- 10. Frances McDormand On Aging In Hollywood: From The BUST Archives
- (Movies)
- ... it’s not gonna happen. It’s not an option. Bras. Girdles. Any kind of foundation garment—it’s just not gonna work. OK, what do you mean by the eight-year-old boy/21-year-old-man thing? I think the ...
- Created on 24 April 2018
- 11. Notes On Frump: A Style
- (Style)
- ... high-heels, curlers, girdles, and bras into a “freedom trash can” outside the 1968 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. Yet, also, Frump has always existed more sneakily and less politically: in feminine ...
- Created on 17 August 2017
- 12. Alison Brie, Before She Got That "GLOW": Flashback Frida
- (TV)
- ... pampered rich girl married to Pete, the smarmiest employee at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. But there’s nothing snooty about the real-life Brie, a former drama geek who chatted me up about girdles, growing ...
- Created on 29 June 2017
- 13. I Run A Vintage Underwear Blog — And The Dick Pics And Death Threats Never Stop
- (Feminism)
- ... avoided. But in 2013, I discovered bullet bras, girdles, corsets and seamed stockings. I entered the world of pinup and vintage fashion where the female form is embraced, no matter what size or shape ...
- Created on 05 May 2016
- 14. Our Pop Stars, Ourselves
- (Music)
- ... woman-ness, but are restricted within the confines of the personas we’ve attributed them. Think of it like foot-binding, bras, girdles and waist-training, but for the soul and not for the body. We just ...
- Created on 09 March 2016
- 15. Riot Don't Diet: Metrecal Was Gross, And Now It's Go
- (Living)
- ... up their girdles, and started dieting in earnest. Sure, Metrecal was for men, too, but virtually all the ads featured women. “When one glance tells you the new slim fashions aren’t for you,” was the ominous ...
- Created on 10 December 2015
- 16. Sarah Paulson Talks 'Carol,' Cate Blanchett And The Hollywood Pay Gap: BUST Intervie
- (Movies)
- ... bra with a cup inside that’s pointed with that very attractive pointy boob look. All the undergarments, the girdles, all that stuff makes you really aware that you are shooting something from another time ...
- Created on 20 November 2015
- 17. Behind the Amazing '60s Woman Programmer Who Made the Moon Landing Possible
- (Feminism)
- ... in 1986, Hamilton Technologies. Images via Vox and Twitter Read more at BUST.com Throwback Thursday: 9 Inventions Created by Women Cheaper to Launch: NASA Should Send More Ladies to Space Bras, Girdles, ...
- Created on 21 July 2015
- 18. June/July 2010
- (Magazine)
- ... girdles. By Lynn Peril News From a Broad Doing fi ne thanks to Title IX. By Kara Buller Nickel and Dined Serving up a super quinoa salad supper. By Isa Chandra Moskowitz Mother Superior ...
- Created on 28 July 2014
- 19. Bras, Girdles, NASA Space Suits - All From the Same Hands
- (Feminism)
- ... Before helping make history as a part of the Apollo program, they sewed bras and girdles. In the 1960s, Playtex subsidiary ILC Dover had a contract with NASA to produce their space suits. Architecture ...
- Created on 28 July 2011
- 20. Mad about Mad Men!
- (General)
- ... be enough. Watching those ladies in their frocks from yesteryear is truly gut-wrenching. Not that wearing girdles is ever something I fantasize about, but they all make those teeny-tiny cinched waists ...
- Created on 10 September 2008
