Undergarment Boudreaux showed the world that an American woman could establish and run a company, and she also caused a revolution in the underwear industry. In 1913, a New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob created the first modern brassiere by tying two handkerchiefs together with ribbon. Jacob's original intention was to cover the whalebone sticking out of her corset, which was visible through her sheer dress. Jacob began making brassieres for her family and friends, and news of the garment soon spread by word of mouth. By 1914, Jacob had a patent for her design and was marketing it throughout
Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps after college. ▪ Husband—Austin Phelps – Professor at Andover Theological Seminary. ▪ Daughter—Mary Gray, author, renamed Elizabeth Stuart Phelps after her mother died. Became Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward after she married Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist. ▪ Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses. (1851) ▪ Kitty Brown and Her City Cousins. (1852) ▪ Kitty Brown and Her Little School. (1852) ▪ Kitty Brown Beginning to Think. (1853) ▪ The Sunny Side and a Peep at Number Five. (1853) ▪ The Sunny Side; or, The Country Minister's Wife. (1851) ▪ A Peep at Number Five; or, A Chapter in the