Hi Susan,

I don't think you are imagining this, however I am not so sure it is truly
Marilyn!  My grandmother looked the same way, cause she wore the same bra as
Marilyn :-)  It is a BIG joke in our family that my grandmother had breast
surgery without surgery.  When you look at family photos, you call tell when
those kinds of bras went out of style.  So my grandma no longer looks
tubular  :-)

I understand that often the bra pointed out so far that some women's
breasts did not even fill it out.  And the idea was to space them farther
apart.  Today the trend of course is to smoosh them together and lift them.

Warmly,
Nikki Simmons

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I just saw a mom who had a lithograph of Marilyn Monroe topless. It was
distracting because my impression of her breasts is so at deviance with that
of the culture that I live in.  Anytime I happened to glance at that
lithograph I was mentally trying to measure the space between her breasts.
I think she had insufficient glandular tissue.  I talked to my colleague who
saw a copy of this same picture years before she became a lactation
consultant and she knew exactly what I meant.  She starting thinking about
the shape of Marilyn's breasts and reached the same conclusion.  We both
have seen some of the classic tubular breasts and many more of the marginal
cases of insufficient tissue and had our suspicions confirmed by the
breastfeeding medicine specialist so I don't think we're imagining this.

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