Did women really burn their bras in the '70s?
Mention women ’s lib and images of wild women drop theirbrasoverhead like lassos and then setting the breach garments on fire in all likelihood comes to mind . There ’s just one problem : Womendidn’t really burn their bras as part of the women ’s liberation movement in the seventies . bandeau burning , it turns out , is another one of America ’s longstanding clichés . Before the 1968 Miss America Pageant , most Americans had never heard of the adult female ’s release movement ....