Post-Mortem for Bra Theory
> While tailors have figured out a formula for men’s suits, bra tailoring is a younger technology with a smaller market and far fewer competitors. [...] But bras, coming after the Industrial Revolution, had no such history of custom tailoring.<p>Even companies trying to custom-make suits without multiple individual fittings are apparently still very much wandering in the wilderness, so it's not surprising (though of course disappointing) that an effort which started futher behind didn't succeed. Maybe this also relates to Boeing and SpaceX's parachute challenges <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850831" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850831</a> : it seems fabric remains hard.