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Bullet Bras Were All The Rage In The 1940s And 1950s, And These 98 Pics Will Poke Your Eyes
If you don’t know what a bullet bra is then you could be forgiven for thinking it’s something dangerous. And in a way it is, because its extremely conical points are sharp enough to poke your eye out.
You don’t see many of these vintage bras these days but they were very popular during the 1940s and 1950s. They were made famous by the sweater girls (various Hollywood actresses who adopted the fashion of wearing tight sweaters over a bullet-shaped or cone bra), and Madonna even wore one designed by Jean Paul Gaultier during her Blond Ambition Tour back in 1990. A vintage fashion lingerie company called What Katie Did was the first company to bring bullet bras back into modern production in 1999, and since then other companies have also started to make their own version of the iconic underwear. Scroll down for a collection of vintage photos featuring women modeling bullet bras in true 1950s fashion. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite!
(h/t: vintage everyday)
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A Sweater Girl
Vintage Underwear
This is the one picture so far that looks alright to me. Probably because it's not under a sweater, making it look like the woman has oddly deformed breasts.
Vintage Fashion
Really thinking I need to invest in one of these bad boys. Bring this fashion trend back!
The One And Only Marilyn Monroe
Maybe it's because Marilyn Monroe is wearing them but this picture doesn't look ridiculous
Elizabeth Taylor
Old Hollywood Fashion
Vintage Look
Bullet Bra
Jayne Mansfield
Vintage Outfit
Vintage Blonde Bombshell
Marilyn Monroe
Bullet Bra Fashion
Vintage Glamour
Bullet Bra
Vintage Fashion
TV Announcer: before the Wonder Bra, before the Push Up Bra,before Plastic Surgery there was (dramatic music)...THE BULLET BRA! (Audience applause)
A Sweater Girl
Jayne Mansfield
Jane Mansfield. Mariska Hargitay's (from law and order) mother. You can see the resemblance.
Marilyn Monroe
Are her pointy boobs closer to her waist than modern day boobs? Or is it an illusion created by the clothes and point of view?
Bullet Bra
Vintage Fashion
Vintage Undergarments
Bullet Bra
Sweater Girl
Vintage Outfit
Bullet Bra Fashion
Rhonda Fleming
Jane Russell
Bettie Page
Vintage Fashion
Carole Lesley
This is the British actress Carole Lesley - she was a friend of my Grandma.
Fashionable Looks
Jayne Mansfield And Diana Dors
Vintage Fashion
Anne Francis? She had a mole (beauty mark) on the right of her chin.
Glamour Shot
Bullet Bra
Vintage Fashion
Vintage Summer Look
Vintage Sporty Look
Dorothy Lamour
Okay, on Dorothy Lamour it almost looks natural. For one thing they're not hiked up to her armpits.
Brigitte Bardot
Lovely, and NOT pointed, at least not by 1960's norms. This the lift and separate look you heard advertised on radio and TV. This might be the playtex 18 hour which some today might consider a bullet style, but thank goodness no spear points.
Bullet Bra Fashion
Tina Louise
Vintage Fashion
Blonde Bombshell
Vintage Undergarments
Vintage Look
Bullet Bra
She might fit behind the tree to hide, but her bullet boobs won't! LOL! 🤣🤣
Hollywood Starlet
Vintage Glamour
Vintage Look
Joan Collins And Jayne Mansfield
Vintage Photoshoot
Vintage Summer Look
Vintage Photoshoot
Bunny Yeager
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn was making a face here I had never seen before. I didn't know it was her until in another place it was verified as her.
Yvonne DeCarlo
Diana Dors
Bettie Page
Bullet Bra Fashion
Vintage Fashion
Am I the only one who thinks she looks a bit like Anna Nicole smith?
Patti Page
Karen Steele
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824606/mediaviewer/rm168536832 Karen Steele played Eve McHuron on Star Trek.
Bullet Bra Fashion
The hair dryer looks like the bra. Maybe that is where he inspiration came from? 😳
Vintage Underwear
Gloria Talbott
A good actress, famed as the unhappy bride in I Married a Monster from Outer Space (silly title for a thoughtful, scary thriller).
Evelyn West
Martha Hyer
Vintage Glamour
Sweater Girl
It's about the sheer damn sweaters, gals. It looks like your nipples are going to poke through, and that makes viewers uncomfortable.
Vintage Summer Fashion
Vintage Magazine Cover Photo
Mamie Van Doren
Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie, the mother from the original "Carrie" with Sissy Spacek.
Patti Page
Vintage Fashion
Bullet Bra
Vintage Photoshoot
Vintage Fashion
Bullet Bra Fashion
Vintage Underwear
And I thought I was the only one to show up at work in my underwear, I had forgotten to wear my pants! LOL
Vintage Bullet Bra
Jane Russell
Vintage Glamour
Janet Leigh
Sweater Girl
Betty Grable
Bullet Bra Fashion
Bullet Bra
Vintage Fashion
Something is wrong with the one in the middle. Her bullets are pointing at the ground!
Bullet Bra
And I thought that they couldn't wear that on the streets, it's quite unsafe, distracting male drivers!
Barbara Windsor
Vintage Fashion
Vera Day
I keep getting the "I'm not talking to you" "well I'm not talking to you either" vibe with some of the pictures.
Dorothy Malone
Bullet Bra
Special mention to the Mazinger Z female mechas :P venusalfa-...26f709.gif
I never realized this was an intentional fashion trend, and have always been thankful that bra technology advanced past "cone boob" phase. I guess some day people will look back at our round boob bras and wonder "WTF were they thinking?"
I just want to see how boobs actually fit in that space. Wouldn't there be a massive gap between boob to point of cone? I suppose they are good protection for bumping against stuff XD
I graduated from High School in June of 1951 and remember these bras well. Don't remember anything at all about their comfort or discomfort or even the look of them because that's what ALL of the females were wearing!! I'm 84 soon and STILL hate to put on a bra... regardless of whether it points or mounds or stretches over my head! They hurt my ribs, won't stay in place, and I get out of them as quickly as possible. :)
I recently bought a bullet bra on eBay and they sent me three. I tried to send the extras back but they said to keep them. I will be bullet bra-tastic forever. With how ridiculous they look, they even feel crazy when you wear them. But still they look awesome in a 50's style dress. So pointy. My husband loves it and couldn't stop poking my pointy boob and making high pitch "boop" noises.
I think it looked nicer on the slightly smaller boob's, the well endowed lady's looked a little off balance. Whereas the smaller ones looked kinda nice in an odd way.
Worst part of this ridiculous fashion, which thank god is long gone, was that no human breast ever looked like that on its own. Talk about unrealistic ideals!
When my mother took me for my first bra in 1969, the lady tried to sell me one of those. I cried.
They all remind me of the robots from Austin Powers that shoot bullets out of their boobs XD I mean I get that was the point of the gag in the film but still :P
Don't like those bras. They look even more uncomfortable than normal bras if this is even possible.
The modern bras gag me. Those molded things cause the breasts to look like a woman cut a grapefuit in half and stuck them in her shirt. They look deformed. ladies, think back to when you were developing. Those perkys stuck straight out, they were cone shaped naturally.
There’s a straw you pull up in case someone accidentally push in point inward, you can blow it out without difficulty...
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some of these are VERY excessive - but they were the style and if you liked MALE attention they got it for ya
we wore those in the late 50s/60s,was very young just left school,they were stitched around and around and mostly fitted in properly,but sometimes if they didn't some would put a tiny bit of cotton wool in the point to stop it denting,hahaha those were the pointy days.
thats how we had them in the late 50s/60s,they went around and around stitch wise,you did fit in them,l was young and small anyway,but some of my friends put a tiny bit of cotton wool in to stop them denting hahaha
Not long after the bullet bras became the rage, the late Jane Russell endorsed a 'cross-your-heart' bra for Playtex. Apparently, these were for added separation and comfort. All I can say is 'Wow!'.
I thought, good grief, who wants to look at 10 pages of uncomfortable fashion? But the comments were a lot of fun!
These bras are insane but I couldn't help but notice nearly all these women had nice butts. Wow! I'm blown away.
They are still not as ridiculous as putting poison in it *in 2010s*
Super fun! https://www.facebook.com/OldSchoolPinUps/photos/a.454536219791.241081.351626024791/10152410507994792/?type=3&theater
I never heard the term bullet bra before. I always read they were called Torpedo bras...guess it depends on where you were raised.
i liked the idea of them for the good figure reasons, But i reckon you would have to have had big confidence to wear them... I dont know if they were uncomfortable to wear as its same with Bra's nowadays, some can be uncomfy even today.... hence why i prefer sports Bra's hehe :)
I remember being very disappointed because my boobs were not that pointy and perky, no matter which type of pushup I got. It took a long time before I realized it was a specific bra style🤣🤣
Oh that's rediculous but made the waist look smaller didn't they ? Haha
No way to photoshop the bruise out of #50's thigh? And even though these thighs look hefty, I think they look much sexier than having the six inch thigh gap.
Gotta admit, they look super uncomfortable. I really doubt my breasts would fit well in those.
My 1st bra was like these. I didn't quite fill the pointed end (who did) and my bra looked smashed in. Lmao
Most innovative thing, created by man, and now... ruined by ugly feminism warriors.
I have one of these, Wanted to give my 44DD's a little zip. The bra isn't as uncomfortable as it looks.
do visit this link...letstalk.blogspot.in.....it contains some nice writings that are worth reading.....if you like dont forget to appreciate..
Special mention to the Mazinger Z female mechas :P venusalfa-...26f709.gif
I never realized this was an intentional fashion trend, and have always been thankful that bra technology advanced past "cone boob" phase. I guess some day people will look back at our round boob bras and wonder "WTF were they thinking?"
I just want to see how boobs actually fit in that space. Wouldn't there be a massive gap between boob to point of cone? I suppose they are good protection for bumping against stuff XD
I graduated from High School in June of 1951 and remember these bras well. Don't remember anything at all about their comfort or discomfort or even the look of them because that's what ALL of the females were wearing!! I'm 84 soon and STILL hate to put on a bra... regardless of whether it points or mounds or stretches over my head! They hurt my ribs, won't stay in place, and I get out of them as quickly as possible. :)
I recently bought a bullet bra on eBay and they sent me three. I tried to send the extras back but they said to keep them. I will be bullet bra-tastic forever. With how ridiculous they look, they even feel crazy when you wear them. But still they look awesome in a 50's style dress. So pointy. My husband loves it and couldn't stop poking my pointy boob and making high pitch "boop" noises.
I think it looked nicer on the slightly smaller boob's, the well endowed lady's looked a little off balance. Whereas the smaller ones looked kinda nice in an odd way.
Worst part of this ridiculous fashion, which thank god is long gone, was that no human breast ever looked like that on its own. Talk about unrealistic ideals!
When my mother took me for my first bra in 1969, the lady tried to sell me one of those. I cried.
They all remind me of the robots from Austin Powers that shoot bullets out of their boobs XD I mean I get that was the point of the gag in the film but still :P
Don't like those bras. They look even more uncomfortable than normal bras if this is even possible.
The modern bras gag me. Those molded things cause the breasts to look like a woman cut a grapefuit in half and stuck them in her shirt. They look deformed. ladies, think back to when you were developing. Those perkys stuck straight out, they were cone shaped naturally.
There’s a straw you pull up in case someone accidentally push in point inward, you can blow it out without difficulty...
#1 is my First Choice ... My Second Choice is 234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899&100 ( I have 3 of my own private pics!)
some of these are VERY excessive - but they were the style and if you liked MALE attention they got it for ya
we wore those in the late 50s/60s,was very young just left school,they were stitched around and around and mostly fitted in properly,but sometimes if they didn't some would put a tiny bit of cotton wool in the point to stop it denting,hahaha those were the pointy days.
thats how we had them in the late 50s/60s,they went around and around stitch wise,you did fit in them,l was young and small anyway,but some of my friends put a tiny bit of cotton wool in to stop them denting hahaha
Not long after the bullet bras became the rage, the late Jane Russell endorsed a 'cross-your-heart' bra for Playtex. Apparently, these were for added separation and comfort. All I can say is 'Wow!'.
I thought, good grief, who wants to look at 10 pages of uncomfortable fashion? But the comments were a lot of fun!
These bras are insane but I couldn't help but notice nearly all these women had nice butts. Wow! I'm blown away.
They are still not as ridiculous as putting poison in it *in 2010s*
Super fun! https://www.facebook.com/OldSchoolPinUps/photos/a.454536219791.241081.351626024791/10152410507994792/?type=3&theater
I never heard the term bullet bra before. I always read they were called Torpedo bras...guess it depends on where you were raised.
i liked the idea of them for the good figure reasons, But i reckon you would have to have had big confidence to wear them... I dont know if they were uncomfortable to wear as its same with Bra's nowadays, some can be uncomfy even today.... hence why i prefer sports Bra's hehe :)
I remember being very disappointed because my boobs were not that pointy and perky, no matter which type of pushup I got. It took a long time before I realized it was a specific bra style🤣🤣
Oh that's rediculous but made the waist look smaller didn't they ? Haha
No way to photoshop the bruise out of #50's thigh? And even though these thighs look hefty, I think they look much sexier than having the six inch thigh gap.
Gotta admit, they look super uncomfortable. I really doubt my breasts would fit well in those.
My 1st bra was like these. I didn't quite fill the pointed end (who did) and my bra looked smashed in. Lmao
Most innovative thing, created by man, and now... ruined by ugly feminism warriors.
I have one of these, Wanted to give my 44DD's a little zip. The bra isn't as uncomfortable as it looks.
do visit this link...letstalk.blogspot.in.....it contains some nice writings that are worth reading.....if you like dont forget to appreciate..