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Beauty By Numbers.(lingerie)
Beauty By Numbers
Lingerie
Whoever first said "we're all the same underneath our clothes" had obviously never taken
a stroll around a lingerie department. A peek at what's in our nation's top drawers. -- SARAH VAN BOVEN
894 million: Number of pairs of underwear purchased by American women in 2003. 16th: Century in which French women began wearing a pomander of flower blossoms between their breasts to mask body odor, a convention echoed
today by the silk rosette often stitched on bras. 1913: Year New York City socialite Mary Phelps Jacob received
a patent for the brassiere. 17: Measurement in inches of Scarlett O'Hara's corseted waist in Gone With the Wind. 28,000: Tons of metal freed up after the U.S. War Industries Board asked women not to buy corsets in 1917. 1947: Year the inventor of the push-up bra, Frederick Mellinger, opened Frederick's of Hollywood. $200,000: Value of lingerie believed to have been stolen by looters who rampaged through the store during the 1992 Rodney King riots. 1952: Year Warner's introduced a one-piece longline strapless bra it christened "The Merry Widow," after a Lana Turner film. Turner reportedly said of the garment, "I am telling
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