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We must develop our bust
Uplifting Outcomes: The Silver Linings of Breast Cancer Treatments
We’ve come a long way baby
We have ways to treat cancer and lift sagging breasts today that our mothers and grandmothers couldn’t imagine. Weight lifting for sagging breasts for instance.
The idea of a 1930s, 1940s, or 1950s woman going into a gym and sweating with men to lift heavier and heavier weights was preposterous. Pearls and high heels didn’t go well with work-out clothes. Neither did aprons and kerchiefs.
There were no stretch yoga pants that snugly outline derrieres and the occasional camel toe. The closest our mothers had were capris, but they had zippers. Not something you want digging into your side while working out. Even Marilyn Monroe worked out in jeans.
As for workout bras — they weren’t even a gleam in Bali’s eye. The closest to those were “training” bras, which were worn only when our first little budding breasts popped up like flowers in Spring. I never understood what we were training them to do, other than cover our, apparently shameful, femininity.
When I was a teen, while we weren’t taught to lift weights, I had a gym teacher who taught us, “We must, we must, we must develop our bust.”