hmmm if you go to enough websites, it seems everyone invented the bra
1914 Polly Jacobs takes out a patent for the first bra. The purported inventor of the bra, Otto Titzling, never took out a patent, and most discount his claims. The same is true for Philippe de Brassiere.
Olga Erteszek, however, held 28 bra patents. Ida (Maidenform) Rosenthal later added such refinements as sized cups. Prior to the invention of the bra, women were squeezed into corsets which, when tightened to stylish thinness,constricted their organs and caused serious illnesses. If they were large-breasted, women strapped their breasts down using bindings. Marie Tuceks did patent a †œbreast supporterââ‚ ¬Â in 1893, but it didnâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t take off.