When discussing fashion women often talk about the amazing dress they picked up or the sexy peep toe heels that they just couldn't bare to pass by, but, very rarely does one think of the bra and its impact on fashion history. A necessary evil in most women's lives, the "over the shoulder boulder holder  has been around since ancient times in some way or another. Before the invention of the brassiere women were suffocating in corsets that resulted in crushed rib cages and damaged reproductive organs, however, in 1914, Mary Phelps Jacob changed all that by stitching together the very first bra, therefore, making a significant contribution to culture. Some women felt that brassieres were an instrument of female torture. In fact during the Miss America contest on September 7th in 1914, about four hundred women were gathered together by a small group, "The New York Radical Women . It was a protest and they symbolically threw several feminine products in a large trashcan. The items were things like mops, false eyelashes, pots and pans, different magazines like Playboy and Cosmopolitan, high-heeled shoes, makeup, girdles, hairspray, corsets, and bras. They thought these were items made to torture females (Siegel, Jessica). While they were tossing the items into the trashcan they also passed out pamphlets, marched with signs, they even crowned a live sheep, comparing the beauty pageant to livestock competitions at county fairs. Women also still have oppositions to bras. Some researchers believe training bras are used to instruct girls into thinking about their breasts as sexual objects. In their view, bras for very young girls whose breasts don't need support yet are not proper undergarments and are only used to draw attention to the girl's sexuality. The author, Iris Young, wrote that the bra "serves as a barrier to touch  and that a braless woman is "deobjectified,  excluding the "hard, pointy look that phallic culture posits as the norm.  Without a bra, women's breasts are not individually shaped objects but change as the women moves, showing the natural body movement. Released breasts make fun of the idea of the "perfect breasts.  In her book "Femininity,  Susan Brownmiller took a stand that women without bras tend to shock, yet anger men because men "implicitly think that they own breasts and that only they should remove bras . Yet women