With that, the timing of Prada’s bullet bra makes sense. While the name sounds violent (another descriptor for the design is the torpedo bra), it came from the shape the bias-cut bra molded the breast ...

Bullet bras? Really? That staple of 1950s sweater girls and Bond villainesses (the ones whose undergarments turned out to contain actual bullets)? Sure, underwear has become something of a Miu Miu ...

The 1950s were a wild mix of domestic duties, social expectations, and carefully polished appearances—all wrapped up in a perfectly pressed apron. For women of the era, life was about striking a ...