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
Continental shelf frequent earthquakes that move sediment to the deep sea. The shelf usually ends at a point of increasing slope (called the "shelf break"). The sea floor below the break is the "continental slope". Below the slope is the "continental rise", which finally merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain. The continental shelf and the slope are part of the continental margin. The shelf area is commonly subdivided into the "inner continental shelf", "mid continental shelf", and "outer continental shelf", each with their specific geomorphology and marine biology. The character of the shelf changes dramatically at the shelf break,