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🗓️ 7 April 2023
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REAL LIFE INVENTOR ALERT!!!
Two jockstraps cleverly sewn together. That was how the very first sports bra was made in 1977. The product built out from this prototype, the “Jog Bra”, went on to change women’s athletics forever.
Lisa Lindhal who, together with her friends Polly and Hinda, unleashed the sports bra on the world. In this episode from our sister podcast, Patented: History of Inventions, she spoke to Dallas Campbell .
The episode was produced by Freddy Chick. The editor was Anisha Deva. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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0:35.0 | these are all activities that for many of us are accompanied by a wobble, a clap and more than |
0:40.7 | a little bit of discomfort, even more so if you don't happen to be wearing a sports bra. |
0:47.1 | But just when was the sports bra invented? What was it that gave the inventor the idea and how did |
0:53.1 | this simple undergarment change sports for women? Today we are over with our sister podcast |
0:59.2 | patented where Dallas Campbell spoke to Lisa Lindhol, who together with her friends Polly and Hinder, |
1:04.7 | unleashed the sports bra on the world in the form of the jog bra. I am feeling supported if you are, |
1:12.0 | let's get into this. |
1:23.1 | Perfect copies of whatever my boss needs. I just turning the knob and pushing the button. |
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1:45.9 | Hey, welcome to the show. Actually before we start, did you watch the England Germany game? |
1:52.1 | Why did you not watch the England Germany game last week? The truth is I don't watch sports. |
1:58.3 | Well, I thought of you because Chloe Kelly who scored the winning goal, she took a shirt off and |
2:05.2 | she did the whole sports bra thing and I think she was, was it like 20 years ago there was an |
2:09.8 | American footballer soccer player who did this similar thing and I think she was, it was a kind of |
2:14.8 | homage to maybe that moment. Brandy Chastain is her name. |
2:19.6 | Correct. Anyway, listen to this. Lucy Ward is a writer and she writes a really, |
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