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.
Caresse Crosby
Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1891 - January 24, 1970) was the first recipient of a patent for the modern bra, an American patron of the arts, publisher, and the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris."
