Science restrains, subdues breasts

July 29th, 2007

In honour of our new-found readers directed from the pages of Arena magazine, here’s a story combining science and titillation. Not content with levitating small animals and creating pigeon cyborgs, Chinese scientists have laid waste to the 70 year old “alphabet” method of bra sizing, using three-dimensional scans of hundreds of women to perfect a system that would provide more comfortable bras. Writing in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University stated that the existing system may be “inappropriate in the categorisation of breast sizes for bras”, and aim to increase the number of bra sizes by eight or sixteen combinations. SciencePunk predicts that, if shoes are anything to go by, women will still strap themselves into torturous brassiere for the benefit of us men. Sweet Schadenfreude!

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