Buying your first bra used to be only slightly less weird and painful than the bloodier rites of passage employed in what we like to think of as more primitive tribal cultures. I know a woman who ...

When a girl becomes a woman, she embarks on a wondrous journey of growth, self-discovery, and horrific training bras. The first bra-buying outing is a tweeny shop of horrors: Behold, the dull cotton ...