By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
A revolutionary discovery is rewriting the history of underwear: Some 600 years ago, women wore bras.
"We didn't believe it ourselves," she said in a telephone call from the Tyrolean city of Innsbruck. "From what we knew, there was no such thing as bra-like garments in the 15th century."
One specimen in particular "looks exactly like a (modern) brassiere," says Hilary Davidson, fashion curator for the London Museum. "These are amazing finds."
