The History and Invention of the Bra

Who invented the bra? Caresse Crosby Alicia Chong Rodriguez Bra / Inventors. That was the day the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Mary Phelps Jacobs for the garment she called a “”brassiere.”” The necessity that drove Jacobs’s invention came down, in this case, to the fashion trends of early-20th-century America. … Read more