Not sure if this has bee posted here before, but here goes.
Stumbled across this interesting little article recently while surfing the net. It's apparently an ad from a 1949 issue of Modern Mechanix, advertising a 'breathing balloon' for women, designed to improve lung capacity and (supposedly) 'develop' the female figure.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/29/breathing-balloon-for-big-breasts/
The image included in the article isn't especially tantalizing, but the concept is intriguing nonetheless. Could make good fodder for a story.
Just thought I'd post the link, in case anyone was interested.
Excellent find. "Develops your form, if that's what you want." What a strange phrasing -- it's as if they couldn't come out and say what it did, and they were a little to shy to even insinuate that someone would even want the product!
A decade later, they were not as shy:
http://members.aol.com/inflate123/private/fredbras.html
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