Like many other pages on my site, I'm sharing some favorite links on the subject.

The first patent for the bra has a somewhat scandalous story.  Below is a video from "Drunk History" that's fairly entertaining.  Fun fact: They joke in the video about changing her name to Clytoris, it seems they briefly considered the name, but they chose Caresse and actually named the dog Clytoris.

When I went to see if I could confirm some of this information on the internet, I found the wikipedia article to be just as entertaining.