Public Eye: Less Than Uplifting

Less Than Uplifting

Women want to be attractive to men; men want to be attractive to women. This will ever be so. But why must women, after three decades of working toward equality, still spend countless hours and endure pain to that end while men get off pretty well with a shave and a shine?

The latest instruments of female torture are contraptions with names like Wonderbra and Super-Uplift that force a woman's breasts, however small, into a harness, creating cleavage of the sort enjoyed by Dolly Parton. The maker of Super-Uplift describes its product as a feat of engineering (constructed with 46 separate...

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