My, how things have changed. Back in my student days 15 years ago (to say nothing of today), the female students -even some attractive teachers- wore much more revealing attire. What is “appropriate” nowadays has little to do with 1960, when my mother went to university. How will students dress in 2050? Any bets?

Here's my question. Where did she get such a supportive bra, and do they still make them that well anymore? Cause all the ones I buy aren't that "helpful".

This is so, so disgusting. That poor woman. No one should suffer harassment and blame for the bodies nature gave them.

Oh, and a 41-inch chest? Not that big, by today's standards. Let's say she had an average-sized (30 inch) ribcage. Then, using modern sizing, her band size would be a 34, and her 41-inch chest would make her a G-cup. I personally know at least two women who wear that cup size, and they don't create chaos around campus.

I have heard that breast sizes have gotten larger over time, and I wonder if that growth has been evenly distributed across the range of sizes. Has there been a uniform drift upward? Or has the increase been more concentrated in the larger half of the spectrum. (I.e. do we have similar numbers of A- and B-cups to what we had in days of yore, but a whole lot more DD-J cups?)

In addition, I wonder if the ubiquitous boobie imagery we encounter in advertising, in movies, on inter net, etc. may actually have done the world a bit of a service, in that it normalizes large breasts. Sure, it creates the implication that everyone *should* have massive boobs, which is hurtful to smaller ladies such as myself. But at least today's youth aren't completely overwhelmed by the sight of a particularly large chest.

I'm sure an article in a newspaper (with pictures and her full name no less) really helped make this "problem" more inconspicuous around campus. That, and it's interesting that such a story even made it into a newspaper, at least in 1960. Today this kind of thing would qualify as "Breaking News!" though chances are if it made the TV news the newscasters reporting on it would have an even larger and more distracting (and more visible!) bust than this "coed." Still, she doesn't appear to be suitably contrite about her crimes against education since she's all smiles in the pictures, lol.

Really, this might be an early example of the devolution of news into the tabloid-esque focus on ratings instead of reporting substantive news. Then again, I don't know what kind of newspaper the LA Mirror News was and it could've been a tabloid like those found in supermarket checkout lanes nowadays.

And the term "coed" is another funny thing; I guess it means men get "educated" and women get "co-educated" because they do it alongside men? Were women attending all-women's colleges called "coeds" too? (I use the past tense because the term seems to be falling out of favor)

Does anyone else think she's been carefully posed in the pictures to make her chest look larger than it actually is? It looks to me as if she's arching her lower back and pushing her shoulders backwards in quite an unnatural way, thus making her boobs look more prominent. No doubt she had a large chest anyway, but i suspect the pictures are quite misleading. I find it hard to imagine that she stood that way habitually - one suspects the photographer has posed her for maximal 'impact'!

reminds me of Geisy Arruda (and this occurred in 2009, not the distant 60s)

"A 20-year-old student was expelled from Brazil's Bandeirante University (Uniban) Sunday after hundreds of her classmates rioted over the length of her skirt.

"According to Edison Bernardo DeSouza of Brazzil Magazine, on October 22, tourism student Geisy Arruda showed up to class at Uniban, near Sao Paulo, wearing a pink minidress and "heavy makeup," which apparently prompted her fellow students to go completely insane. Two hundred of them gathered outside her classroom to gawk at her, and when she left to go to the bathroom, men followed, physically fighting with her and trying to take cell phone pictures between her legs. A professor then tried to hide her in another classroom, but 700 students massed outside, shouting, "Let her out Professor, we want to rape her." As she finally left, escorted by police, some students took videos, including the one above, where you can hear chants of "puta" or "whore." "

http://jezebel.com/5400255/short-skirt-sparks-mass-hysteria-at-brazilian-university

Searching for her name in the Google News archive turned up some interesting articles--apparently a few weeks later, Miss Cherniss quit school to become a Vegas chorus girl. So everything turned out for the best. Or something.

OH NOES! This totally overshadows the fact that half the country was still segregated in 1960!

After looking at the picture, a muu muu would be only token damage control.

And I agree with other posters, this woman probably had a small frame so they appear larger ("Items in mirror...")

Always the solution is to blame the woman and tell her to put on more clothing rather than to tell men to stop acting like dogs. So why is it women who wear burquas still get raped?

Is it just me who thinks that I can see where her bra strap goes on her shoulder, therefore she has a really badly fitting bra? :/ Ouch.

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How about telling the ladies to stop acting like dogs, bitching and complaiming every chance they get, because they have to rationalize adolescent behaviour by insulting men calling whistles that are compliments and compliments itself so-called "sexual harassment" and socalled "street harassment", and giving the cowardly police a script by tattling on men,bearing false witness, telling lies about them behind their backs. This shows you ladies up for the stupid,selfish,self-deluded,immature girls you are.

It's not the size, it's the sincerity. And one day I sincerely hope to be this size.