"The Training Bra"

"An adolescent girl needed a bra in order to prevent sagging breasts, stretched blood vessels, and poor circulation, all of which would create problems in nursing her future children." (Brumberg 251). I find it kind of odd that, even with all of this information about the "side effects" of not wearing a bra, they were so expensive. In order for a bra to do it's job, and benefit a girl throughout her life, she would need to start wearing one pretty early. However, since bras were so expensive in the beginning they really didn't do much good by the time a girl got one. They should have made them inexpensive and available to all girls so that they wouldn't have health issues later on.