bra burner

“I was a proud bra burner and equal rights marcher back in the day, and I still am. I can’t believe we’re even talking about stuff like this in this day and age. But, you! You must be exhausted! You don’t even look it. You look like you jogged down a driveway.”

She was a child of the ’50s, just not a bra burner.

Or go back to French designer Paul Poiret in the early 1900s, the original bra burner — before there were bras.

Associates grimaced, competitors smiled, and Revson went on talking about how it was perfect for "the woman who is sort of liberated but who isn't a bra burner."