Fashion evolution in garments does not only include coats, dresses, pants and suits. Undergarments have been subjects of different styles of fashion designs throughout the history. One of the most changed undergarments is the bra. Although not usually seen in the streets, different types and styles of brassieres are now being used. Depending on the need for comfort or style, a lady will definitely find the most suited bra in just a few clicks on the internet.

Brassieres are being used to cover, support, shape and enhance women’s breasts. That’s the basic function of it. In earlier times, wealthy women use corsets to push the breast upward and restrain the sides of the chest inward to create an illusion of a full bosom. That’s when this type of undergarment became a subject of fashion. The need for cover remains the basic function, but a need for having good-looking covered breasts had been created.

In the past decades, designers produced bras that were purely functional. Bra designs before focus mainly on covering the sensitive area and restraining movement. With the advent of different types of clothes though, designers started to manipulate the bra’s designs. Plunging neckline dresses require bras that enhance the cleavage, tube dresses require strapless ones, and so on. Colors started to vary to compliment with clothes as well.

The standard of beauty also changed greatly and good-looking” breasts became popular. Such change resulted to the existence of push-up bras, wonder bras, and even t-shirt bras. These garments also became materials of seduction, thus resulting to manufacturing of laced, transparent and edible brassieres.

There are still designers who focus on both functionality and fashion. Just early this decade, breastfeeding bras have been manufactured to attend to the need of nursing women. Such bras combined both style and functionality. It answered nursing women’s dilemma on how to breastfeed their children when in a public place without having to lose their poise.

Sizes of brassieres do not have worldwide standards. It varies greatly, depending on who the manufacturer is, where it is made, and what it is for. Experts on this undergarment have yet to agree on the procedure for measurement. Women all over the world have different shapes and sizes of breasts and it is proven that the symmetry of breasts changes depending on menstrual cycle and weight gain. The best way to see if a bra fits is to actually wear it.

There are thousands of fashion designers that specialize in bra designs worldwide. Most of them can be found on the internet, each with his or her own brand. Fashions shows displaying all types of bras (from laced bras to push-up bras) are being hosted everywhere. Brands like Dolce and Gabbana, Victoria Secret and Feline Ria are known-worldwide because the designers displayed their brand’s elegance and style through fashion shows. Designers often hire supermodels with different body shapes to convince the market that anybody can wear their brand.

This garment has come a long way in terms of fashion evolution. Women do not need ordinary bras anymore, they need stylish brassieres that fit and make their body look good.