Bullet Bras Were All The Rage In The 1940s And 1950s, And These 98 Pics Will Poke Your Eyes

If you don’t know what a bullet bra is then you could be forgiven for thinking it’s something dangerous. And in a way it is, because its extremely conical points are sharp enough to poke your eye out.

You don’t see many of these vintage bras these days but they were very popular during the 1940s and 1950s. They were made famous by the sweater girls (various Hollywood actresses who adopted the fashion of wearing tight sweaters over a bullet-shaped or cone bra), and Madonna even wore one designed by Jean Paul Gaultier during her Blond Ambition Tour back in 1990. A vintage fashion lingerie company called What Katie Did was the first company to bring bullet bras back into modern production in 1999, and since then other companies have also started to make their own version of the iconic underwear. Scroll down for a collection of vintage photos featuring women modeling bullet bras in true 1950s fashion. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite!

(h/t: vintage everyday)

#1 A Sweater Girl

#2 Vintage Underwear

#3 Vintage Fashion

#4 The One And Only Marilyn Monroe

Image source: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

#5 Elizabeth Taylor

#6 Old Hollywood Fashion

#7 Vintage Look

#8 Bullet Bra

#9 Jayne Mansfield

Image source: Hulton Archive / Stringer

#10 Vintage Outfit

#11 Vintage Blonde Bombshell

#12 Marilyn Monroe

#13 Bullet Bra Fashion

#14 Vintage Glamour

#15 Bullet Bra

Image source: silver screen collection

#16 Vintage Fashion

Image source: Betty Blue

#17 A Sweater Girl

#18 Jayne Mansfield

#19 Marilyn Monroe

#20 Bullet Bra

#21 Vintage Fashion

#22 Vintage Undergarments

#23 Bullet Bra

Image source: Betty Brosmer

#24 Sweater Girl

#25 Vintage Outfit

#26 Bullet Bra Fashion

#27 Rhonda Fleming

#28 Jane Russell

Image source: George Hurrell

#29 Bettie Page

#30 Vintage Fashion

#31 Carole Lesley

#32 Fashionable Looks

Image source: ecrater

#33 Jayne Mansfield And Diana Dors

#34 Vintage Fashion

Image source: Longtime

#35 Glamour Shot

Image source: Mamie Van Doren

#36 Bullet Bra

#37 Vintage Fashion

#38 Vintage Summer Look

#39 Vintage Sporty Look

#40 Dorothy Lamour

#41 Brigitte Bardot

#42 Bullet Bra Fashion

#43 Tina Louise

#44 Vintage Fashion

#45 Blonde Bombshell

#46 Vintage Undergarments

#47 Vintage Look

#48 Bullet Bra

#49 Hollywood Starlet

#50 Vintage Glamour

#51 Vintage Look

#52 Joan Collins And Jayne Mansfield

#53 Vintage Photoshoot

#54 Vintage Summer Look

#55 Vintage Photoshoot

#56 Bunny Yeager

#57 Marilyn Monroe

#58 Yvonne DeCarlo

#59 Diana Dors

#60 Bettie Page

#61 Bullet Bra Fashion

#62 Vintage Fashion

#63 Patti Page

#64 Karen Steele

#65 Bullet Bra Fashion

#66 Vintage Underwear

#67 Gloria Talbott

#68 Evelyn West

#69 Martha Hyer

#70 Vintage Glamour

#71 Sweater Girl

#72 Vintage Summer Fashion

#73 Vintage Magazine Cover Photo

#74 Mamie Van Doren

#75 Piper Laurie

#76 Patti Page

#77 Vintage Fashion

#78 Bullet Bra

#79 Vintage Photoshoot

#80 Vintage Fashion

#81 Bullet Bra Fashion

#82 Vintage Underwear

#83 Vintage Bullet Bra

#84 Jane Russell

#85 Vintage Glamour

#86 Janet Leigh

#87 Sweater Girl

#88 Betty Grable

#89 Bullet Bra Fashion

Image source: John Irving

#90 Bullet Bra

Image source: Getty Images

#91 Vintage Fashion

#92 Bullet Bra

#93 Barbara Windsor

#94 Vintage Fashion

#95 Vera Day

#96 Dorothy Malone

#97 Bullet Bra