Bandeau soft fabric and delicate trimmings providing little support or shaping. The design was patented in 1916 in the United States by Edgar Guggenheim and resembled the contours and wrapping effects of the scultetus binder used in hospitals. It was sometimes made from an elastic material to flatten or suppress the breasts in the style of the period. When the "boyish" silhouette went out of fashion, the word "brassiere" or later "bra" became the term for more shapely support garments. The term bandeau also refers to the thin headband traditionally worn—until recently—underneath and supporting the veil by the nuns of many
Siberian Shelf Sea, and respectively subdivided into the Kara Shelf, the Laptov Shelf and the East Siberian Shelf. Eastwards it merges into the Chukchi Shelf (of the Chukchi Sea) shared by Eurasia and North America (i.e., by Russia and the United States). Westwards it merges into the Barents Shelf of the Barents Sea. Also, the New Siberian Islands and the New Siberian Rift Basin define the 'New Siberian Shelf.' According to the split of the high Arctic by the Lomonosov mid-ocean ridge into the Eurasian Basin and Amerasian Basin, the Siberian Shelf is split between the Eurasian Shelf and the Amerasian Shelf.