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Facial Fat and Breast Support

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I didn’t quite know what to do with this bugger, but it seems so special in and of itself that I thought it deserved to stand alone.  I have seen other things like this, as in the post  made two days ago on the history of enormous bras, that used stone-age implements in the patent (see below).

This toupee adherer, the thing to which a toupee would be attached, also served as a facial splint–a splint for face fat, the device described as being capable of pulling back the looseness of age.  

 

Patent--head bra title full

It seems as though waking up in the morning au natural might be a bit of a shock. 

 

Here’s another prehistoric bit, this on breast support:

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