A training bra (also trainer bra or bralette) is a brassiere designed for girls who have begun to develop breasts during early puberty. Her breasts are not yet large enough to fit a standard-sized bra, usually defined as Tanner stage I and II. Training bras are usually a lightweight, pullover style with a soft, elastic bra band and soft bra cups. When a girl receives her first bra, it may be seen as a long-awaited rite of passage in her life signifying her coming of age. Prior to the marketing of training bras, a pre-teen or young teen girl in Western countries usually wore a one-piece "waist" or camisole without cups or darts. Bras for pre-teen and girls entering puberty were first marketed during the 1950s. Some companies have been criticized for marketing bras to pre-teens and of sexualizing girls at an early age.
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“When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.”
—Bill Cosby (20th century)
“An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.”
—Maria Montessori (1870–1952)