Ban the Bra

Ban the Bra Cause Button Museum
Category
Cause
Humorous
Additional Images
Ban the Bra button back Cause Button Museum
Text on Button BAN THE BRA
Image Description

Black text on a light green background
Curl Text BIG LITTLE STORE 1671 WASHINGTON ST SE
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1960s
Additional Information

"Ban the Bra" was an ideology that was part of the 1960s feminist Women's Liberation Movement. Second wave feminism used bras as a symbol of the hegemonic oppression of women. Feminists protested the 1968 Miss America pageant for being sexist; women attending the protest were encouraged to bring bras with them to symbolize patriarchal ideals of female beauty standards. That protest began the largely mythological and trivializing idea that feminists burn bras.

Banning bras, rather than being a literal call to do away with the undergarments, was a figurative call to end the unfairly rigid beauty standards women were expected to adhere to.
Catalog ID CA0522