Description

• ERA: GENUINE 1950s.
• SIZE: Size 95/38, B cup.
• BRAND: Triumph International.
• COLOUR: White.
• CONDITION: Excellent.
• COMPOSITION: Fabric and structure of a shaping foundation garment.
• MADE IN: Label states "Made in Hong Kong".
• FEATURES: Wide straps and extra-wide back panel, with nine hooks and eyes to close. Small pink flower at cleavage.
• LOOKS GOOD WITH: Possibly a 1950s sweater (mock turtleneck and slightly batwing sleeves). This is not a bullet bra but is more pointy than a modern bra.
• [Photo props: Granny's worse-for-wear 1970s stool-ladder; our even more worse-for-wear mannequin (she had a French head and limbs when I brought her from Sydney); Granny's vintage cupboards, which were painted by a tenant in a suprising new style of Pastel Mondrian.*]
• *Dutch modern art co-founder, best known for abstract blocks of primary colours and black lines.