You must know how good exercise is for your health. You should also know the importance of sports underwear: they provide enough support for the chest, so that your chest does not go with you.

Breasts without muscle. They stay on the breast, but the breast itself is full of fat, glands, and connective tissue. They are fixed on the chest by something called a Cooper ligament, but these ligaments do not reduce the movement of the chest. The skin seems to provide most of the support in restricting the movement of the chest. That is, at the physiological level, nothing can stop the chest from moving. About 40% to 60% of women feel chest pain when they engage in physical activity, according to the survey.

In ancient Rome, women bound their breasts with cloth and leather. Mosaics of pottery and mosaics in AD 4 and fifth Century show women in uniform wearing bikinis.

In the age of Vitoria, women began wearing tight bras to keep their breasts from moving too far. In 1887, Wimbledon women athletes need the gap in the race “for the bloody corset”, in the play, they repeatedly by this clumsy clothes in the metal and bone bone injury”. By the 1911, women had an elastic sports corset”. But it was not until 1920s that bras were gradually replaced by bras in the United States, although bras designed for sports were patented in the 1906, but it didn’t catch on.

Today, there are a variety of sports bra design for us to choose from, yoga type bandage, to fill the cup, and then to the classic pattern that suits, can drown. But they can be grouped into two broad categories: compression sports bras and cups sports bras.

Compression sports bras are the styles that people usually think of when they talk about sports bras – a piece of fabric tightly attached to the breasts. The principle is that if you press your breasts tight to the body, near your center of gravity, you can reduce their pulsation. This is feasible as long as your breasts are not particularly large.

The bra is independent of each breast, more like an ordinary bra. The bra sports bra is perfect for women with A cups and B cups, but women with bigger cups need more support. Some studies have shown that the bra can provide more powerful support, but not everyone agrees. In 2009, White, a researcher at the University of Portsmouth in England who studied chest movement, found that for women with D cups, the difference between compression sports bras and Cup sports bras was not significant.

Corset style bra used to be the stuff of nightmares – corsets you couldn’t breathe in,pretty panties waived in place of stomach controlling knickers and of course the obligatory(and tacky) frilly garter.

Thankfully, bridal fashion has moved on since then and while some women might opt for fleshcoloured spanx as their wedding underwear, there are so many other pretty, delicate,structurally interesting items of bridal corset style bra  to choose from.

So, whether you’re looking for something strapless, backless, boned, non-underwired orotherwise, there’s no reason to assume you can’t curate a wedding underwear look that’sjust as pretty as the wedding dress.

There isn’t really any evidence that feminists in the 1960s actually burned bras, but thelegend has persisted. The modern bra, though, wasn’t created to restrain women—it was aninvention that offered both support and liberation, created by a busty party girl, forbusty party girls. One night in the early 1910s, young socialite Mary Phelps Jacobs (whowent by the name Caresse Crosby for most of her life) was headed to an event when—her corset lacking in danceability and cramping her flapper style—she MacGyvered a sort ofhalter top out of ribbons and handkerchiefs. Jacobs helped her friends out too, and when she figured out she could make a real go of it, she applied for a patent and opened up a  small sweatshop (this was garment manufacturing after all) as an independent proprietress,rather than through her husband.

That is the brief explanation Miuccia Prada gave for her fall collection and the plentifulcorsets she sent down the runway. Most, resemblingorthopedic supports, were laced over andunder almost everything in the show, from pea coats to brocade evening dresses. The corsetwas a summary of her intentions. After all, what single garment encapsulates the history ofwomen’s dress — of restriction and emancipation — more succinctly than the corset?

Since the heyday of the hand-span waists in the mid-19th century, the corset hasrepresented a visual shorthand for “woman.” Indeed, it cannot be divorced from theidealization of women’s bodies, and the politics surrounding them. There is no question ofthe sexuality of the corset, emphasizing the breasts and hips, and hence underscoring the   stereotypically fecund female physique. For many, the reduction of the waist persistently  reflects a reductive view of femininity, limited to a va-va-voom outline.

However, is a woman who wears a corset today, whether following the trends of fashion or the further down-market effects of the Kardashians’ “waist trainers,” restricted, or freed? Conforming to a masculine ideal of femininity, or experimenting with her own perception of self and sexuality? It’s interesting that the corset, with all its historical baggage, is re-emerging now when women’s roles are more malleable, changeable and challenged than ever. Can a corset be feminist?