This is the strange case of Otto Titzling and Philipe de Brassiere, two women’s garment designers who both claimed to be developers of what is now the modern bra. Or did they? I researched this tale for the truth.
The story that’s been floating around for some time now, especially on Internet web sites, is that a German-born engineer named Otto Titzling created that wonderful garment that is now known as the bra for his neighbor, a stacked and packed opera singer named Swanhilda Olafsen.
Both lived in the same New York City boarding house in 1912, and Otto’s design for Swanhilda’s over-the-shoulder boulder-holders led to him plunging deeper into the cleavage of women worldwide.
Among Otto’s subsequent creations were padded bras, the famous “falsies,” and the first front-fastening bra (we call them front loaders at SCORE). Unfortunately, Otto, despite his many credentials, neglected to patent his “bra,” although he did patent the later improvements he made on his first bra.
Then, in the early 1930’s, trouble started when a Frenchman named Phillipe de Brassiere began manufacturing his own line of bras supposedly based on Titzling’s original designs. Brasierre was a well-known and fashionable ladies clothing designer with a more polished demeanor than Titzling.
Kelly Christiansen.
Denise Derringer.
Cindy Cupps.
Merilyn Sakova.
A brutal lawsuit began which lasted from 1934 until 1942 when Brassiere won the jury case. During the trial each man brought out real women to model their hooter holsters. Brassiere’s model was a beauty, earning her a lot of exposure. There was even a sexy photo of her in a popular magazine of the time, The Police Gazette, under the headline “I Did It All For The Bra.”
Otto did get a small jury settlement, but the strain of fighting the case for years crushed him. He died in ’42 from the strain of his financial losses and the emotional bruising. And that’s why the modern bra is often referred to as “The Brassiere” and not a “Tit-Sling.”
Sounds like a great story, right? Good for a PBS Masterpiece Theater series?
The only thing is, it was a historical hoax, and a widespread one, in the wake of a 1971 book by Wallace Rayburn called Bust-Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling.
Rayburn previously had written a 1969 book about Englishman Thomas Crapper, crediting him with having created the flush toilet (he did not, although he was a sanitary engineer).
In another version of the story, Titzling invented his bra with the assistance of Hans Delving, designing it for a Swedish athlete named “Lois Lung.”
Over the past 42 years, the story of Titzling Vs. Brassiere has been accepted by countless newspapers, magazines and websites, as well as being debunked by other lingerie historians. Yet, their saga continues to carry on with a life of its own.
At the Université de Bretagne-Sud in France, two experiments were carried out in order to test the effect a woman’s breast size would have on the number of men approaching her.
The researchers hypothesized that an increase in breast size would be associated with an increase in approaches by men.
This experiment’s a no-brainer, eh?
A young female confederate wore a special bra that let her inflate the cup size at will. In the first experiment, the girl was instructed to sit in a nightclub for one hour, and in the second experiment, she was instructed to take a seat at a sidewalk cafe. It was found that increasing her breast size was associated with an increasing number of guys introducing themselves.
Truly a fantastic discovery. Well worth the research grant. I would have liked to have been involved in this experiment, but no one asked me. Boob science marches on.
French scientists claim that big boobed woman get more attention from guys. Are they fucking crazy?
Remember that Blog I did about busty cops? I have a follow-up.
German policewomen will now be able to wear bullet-proof bras. Made of white cotton with the word Polizei (Police) along the seam, the bras will protect women who wear bullet-proof vests. The bras have no metal parts and resemble sports bras made of cotton, polyester, spandex and polyamide with no buttons or fasteners.
They will be issued to 3,000 women working for Germany’s federal police but wearing them will be optional. The bras will be available in four different sizes and a handful of styles. Each officer will be issued three bras. “These can save someone’s life so it’s not a laughing matter,” said the Hamburg policewoman who organized the committee called Action Brassiere, getting hundreds of German policewomen to try the bras on the job for 90 days before they were officially accepted. When it comes to protecting busty policewomen, we’re here to offer an uplifting show of support.
There’s a new product hitting the shelves of beauty stores. It’s called “Boob Glue By Dawn Jackson.”
Boob Glue?
You may be as puzzled by this as I am. From what I’ve read, the glue is applied between or around the underside of the breasts, which are then inserted into the bra to kind of bond them into position.
The CEO of the company claims the glue’s effect will eliminate sagging, jiggling and bulging, underarm bulge, the dreaded “Quadra boob” and other breasty issues that women have to deal with, sometimes with tape or special bra inserts.
She calls it a “Boob Job in a Bottle” and “Your Girl’s Breast Friend.”
I’ll be looking for a video demonstration of this product one of these days because I can’t visualize how it is applied.
Guys don’t have problems like this with their dicks. But if we did, someone might come up with a glue for it. That’s good, old American know-how.
Love those whoppers. Anjii Ross (April '13 V-mag) is back.
My dirty mind could come up with a lot of different suggestions, but none of them are what so many SCORELAND Girls want to try that they have never tried before. It’s a question on the model’s bio sheet.
Anji Ross, who has a fresh pair (as in a photo set and matching video) now showing at SCORELAND, wants to try this.
That thing is…skydiving. Yes, jumping out of an airplane at 12,000 feet and counting on 300 square feet of nylon to land safely.
What do you make of that? That many models are thrill-seekers in search of an adrenaline rush?
By the way, I was packing up Renee Ross’s bra to ship to Mr. D.S. of Norwood, Ohio, the winner of the November ’12 Voluptuous magazine giveaway, and I wondered if Renee’s 44DDD brassiere could be used as a parachute if I had to jump out of an airplane like Daniel Craig to escape a gang of rival men’s magazine editors. Look at this photo. That’s an 18-inch ruler next to it just to give you something to compare it to. I can’t even describe how big her bra is. I hope D.S. gives it the place of honor in his home that it deserves.
Natalie Fiore wore and signed this bra for her fans!
It should come as no surprise that I love to give big-boob fans as much cool stuff as I can.
I love to include giveaways in V-mag and really get a kick out of mailing out prizes to winners.
You can get your hands on this red bra worn by Kristina Milan.
Renee Ross wore and signed this bra for one lucky winner.
Whenever I can, I always ask for models to sign something for the fans. I think that as fans, it is important to feel like you are connected to the models that you love. So, whenever I see a chance for some of these busty babes to autograph items or even take their bras off and gift them to you, I jump right in there and make it happen.
Right now in V-mag, there are quite a few bra giveaways going on.
You could get your hands on bras worn and signed by Renee Ross, Micky Bells, Kristina Milan and Natalie Fiore.
There are also lots of magazines signed by ladies like Destiny Rose, Melissa Manning and more.
You know how the saying goes in that movie, Field of Dreams? “If you build it, they will come.”
Well, I believe if these ladies sign things, you will cum. 🙂 It is pretty much my mantra.
So come check out V-mag and get your hands on some of this good stuff. It’s just for fans like you.
xoxo
Maria
If you are a Micky Bells fan, you could win this autographed bra!
This weekend, two things happened to me which are noteworthy.
The first is that I was suckered with pizza and beer into helping a friend paint his new apartment . (Really, I did it because I am a good friend, but beer always improves house painting, I think.)
The second is that I found myself at Home Depot buying paint.
While that is not of note necessarily, what happened at this hardware mecca is.
You see, when I go to Home Depot, I get hit on alllllllllllll the time. It’s a store fueled by testosterone and tools. Within its confines, you will find all kinds of men doing and buying things that are manly. Husbands, construction worker types, college-aged jocks, burly older types all walking around and checking out the goods.
And by the goods, I mean the few women that are in the store looking lost and unsure of themselves. (Tools and home improvement are not most women’s cup of tea.) So, whenever I find myself at Home Depot, there are men looking at my boobs in every aisle.
Sometimes they approach me and sometimes they just gawk at me, but the bottom line is, if you have a big rack like I do, or a big ass like most of the women in Miami do, you are getting hit on. That is a fact.
Women approaching women in stores and striking up conversations about tits doesn't JUST happen in pornos.
That is why I was so confused when this tiny old lady came up to me and in very hushed tones asked me if I spoke Spanish. When I replied that I did, she leaned in and asked me where I bought my bras.
“My daughter,” she said while motioning with her head to a busty teen girl about 10 feet away. “She has big breasts like you and her bras don’t fit her right. Her breasts don’t look nice. Yours look nice. Where can I buy her the right bras?”
Now, the guys who I was with all looked shocked that this woman was discussing my breasts and comparing them to her daughter’s, too. But I didn’t even bat an eyelash. Maybe it’s because I work in porn. Or maybe it’s because I am used to people talking about my breasts. I just launched into an explanation about the importance of getting fitted for a bra and knowing your true bra size.
After a few minutes, I could tell that this mother, who had tiny breasts by the way, was not understanding what I was saying. Maybe it was my Spanish? Or maybe, because she didn’t have big breasts, she just didn’t understand the process of finding a bra that fit.
I then offered to speak to her daughter directly.
I walked up to the girl, who looked to be dying of embarrassment at the moment, and told her, “Your mom says you are having trouble finding bras…”
And instead of having an open conversation about what was clearly a problem for her (Her wrong-sized bra was riding up her back and her breasts were being pulled down by too-small, ill-fitting bra cups.), she totally freaked out.
“I don’t have a problem with my bra. I am fine,” she replied nervously.
“I can help you figure out what the problem is so they fit better,” I said.
“No, no. I am okay,” she countered. And then she walked away and I turned to her mother and said, “She doesn’t seem to think she needs help with her bras. I hope I gave you the info you needed.”
And that was that.
But I realized right there and then that this girl was suffering from Boob Shame. She was at the awkward stage of having big boobs where you try to deny their bigness because you don’t want to look different from everyone else. She was in denial and didn’t even want to talk about her boobs because they embarrassed her. Granted, I’m a stranger, and maybe she was uncomfortable talking to me about them, but she looked like she couldn’t talk to anyone about them. If she did, she would have asked someone, maybe at one of the many stores her mother mentioned that she’d been to, about her bra size.
It made me realize and remember how tough it is to have big boobs when you are younger. Young women have to come to grips with their big boobs and embrace that they are going to be big and that’s that. But it’s tough. In a world full of flatties, busty girls stick out like a sore thumb. And at a young age, they deal with a lot of teasing and terrorizing by their less-busty class mates and peers. I can’t tell you how many busty models have told me stories about being teased and ridiculed at the age when their boobs started growing bigger than their friends’ boobs. I can’t tell you how difficult and frustrating it was for me to find bras when I was younger.
I saw Little Miss Boob Shame again at the checkout, and she was covering her boobs with crossed arms and looking notably upset. I didn’t want to push the envelope further, but I walked over and handed her my number.
“I know it’s embarrassing to talk about, but if you ever want some advice on how to buy the right bra, you can contact me,” I said. And then I walked away.
And that was that.
I hope she calls.
If I can help her embrace her top-heaviness at a young age, she will have an easier time adjusting to them overall.
And that’s how we do away with Boob Shame…one pair at a time.
Well, when Maserati came into our studio the other day I noticed that her tits were bigger, too!
So, I whipped out my handy measuring tape and with the help of one of our makeup artist, measured Maserati’s guns.
THEY WERE BIGGER!
I don’t know what is happening out there in the world, maybe it’s the water or the ozone or something, but ladies are coming back to our studio with bigger tits.
No complaints here, though.
In this case, bigger is DEFINITELY better.
Check out Maserati’s HUGE boobs below and enjoy!
She’s bouncing like crazy at SCOREVideos.com this weekend in a brand new XXX video
Melissa Manning is not the same girl she was when she first visited us.
Melissa’s changed.
I’m not blogging about her new hair color that’s changed from red to blonde (Melissa is a natural blonde anyway).
I’m blogging about an increase in her twin peaks.
Melissa looked bustier on this second trip.
Because she was bustier.
Voluptuous editor Maria G. proved it with a high-tech scientific instrument that laymen call a tape measure.
Melissa said she hadn’t noticed that her boobs had grown even bigger since the last time, but we caught it immediately. And you thought the stock market has made strong gains this year.
The people at SCORE have the kind of fanatic attention to detail that UFO investigators have except we focus on tits, not flying saucers (unless they are shaped like boobs). Here’s the proof.
Melissa can now march confidently into any bra store and buy a 36H-cup and march out in total comfort.
By the way, her areolae are really phenomenal.
And now I’d like you all to see the video “Sweater Stretcher” now playing at SCORELAND, SCOREHD and SCORE2Go.com.
Why is Sharday wearing this too-tight, too-small bra? Because we asked her to.
I’m just wondering…us guys…do we just not get it?
Or is it women that just don’t get it?
“Why don’t you write about tight bras?” Maria yelled out to me a little while ago.
“You mean that when a woman is wearing a tight bra, she’s trying to hide her boobs?”
Maria looked at me like I was crazy. I don’t think I’m crazy. I think I’m right about this.
“Women do not wear tight bras to hide their boobs,” Maria said.
“Then why do they wear them?” I asked.
“Why would a woman intentionally wear a bra that makes it look like she has four boobs?” Maria said. “Most women wear tight bras beause their boobs have gone saggy and they’re trying to lift then and bring them back to attention, but gravity has taken its toll on their titties, so their draggy titties need to be in a full-support bra. These demi-cup, too-tight bras…all they do is make a woman look like she has four titties.”
“I disagree,” I said, but by this time, Maria was on a roll.
“She’s not trying to hide those tits in a tiny bra,” she said. “That’s like trying to hide a 500-pound man behind little tiny rocks. If she wanted to hide her big boobs, she’d put them in a big bra.”
Ah-ha! That’s where I thought I had her.
“A big bra is going to make boobs look bigger under a shirt,” I said.
“The big bra is going to make them look full but contained,” Maria retorted.
So I thought about this. Is Maria right? Are girls who wear too-tight bras trying to make up for saggy tits?
Well, there’s a girl who works at a kiosk in a nearby mall. She’s short and stacked. Very stacked. She wears too-tight bras all the time, and I was convinced for the longest time that she was wearing too-tight bras to hide the fact that she has big tits (something my boob radar detected the first second I saw her).
But then, one day, I saw her wearing a T-shirt that said, “My eyes are up here.” That T-shirt is basically code for, “Look at my tits.” (I don’t think even Maria will disagree with that assessment). Another time, she was wearing a T-shirt that said, “Look but don’t touch,” which, of course, means, “Look at my big tits.” So this too-tight-bra wearing MKG (Mall Kiosk Girl) is obviously not trying to hide her tits.
But does that mean she has saggy tits? Damn, I hope not. I think she has huge tits and is proud of them…but not so proud of them that she wants to cause a scene every time she goes out in public.
Here at SCORELAND, we sometimes put girls in too-tight bras because we like to watch their cleavage spill all over the place. But when we want them to look good in sweaters, we dress their tits in properly-fitted bras. Why? Because if you put a girl in a too-tight bra then have her wear something over it, like a sweater or a T-shirt, she looks less busty. Because too-tight bras mash down big tits. When you mash something, it gets flatter and looks smaller. Then, if the girl wears a dark shirt, you can barely tell she has tits at all. Unless you have boob radar.
Go ahead, Maria. Disagree with me. But it’s one thing to have read the owner’s manual. It’s another thing to have written it.
