7 Vintage "Push-up" Bras We'll Never Wear Again

Many women would likely agree there's a price to be paid for beauty. Then they wrestle on their first pair of Spanx and decide that if any friends really dislike them because of they're back fat, they were never really friends in the first place. Spank, push-up bras and other spandex-laden materials designed to pull us in and push us out in just the right places are great, unless your ultimate object is to breathe or bend down. In which case they're awful. The thing is, they used to be way worse. Like a-southern-belle-from-another-century-who-needed-a-team-of-big-burly-men-to-sew-her-into-her-corset kind of worse. Be happy you didn't live in the 1940s and weren't made to feel like you needed to wear one of these bras or corsets. - By Meredith Carroll

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