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Lorentzen, Deana; Lawson, LaJean – 1986
This study compared the biomechanical support offered by eight presently marketed sports bras for small-, medium-, and large-breasted women while jogging. Fifty-nine subjects were filmed while jogging on a treadmill in each of the bras and in the nude condition. The vertical displacement of the breast relative to the body during one average…
Descriptors: Athletics, Biomechanics, Clothing, Females
Lawson, LaJean; Lorentzen, Deana – 1986
This study evaluated currently marketed sports bras on subjective measures of comfort and support both within an entire group of women and within cup sizes, correlated the subjective measures of comfort and support with previously reported biomechanical findings of support on the same bras, and further developed empirically based guidelines for…
Descriptors: Athletics, Biomechanics, Clothing, Evaluation