Ethiopia’s Omo Valley | Africa’s Last Frontier, National Geographic Magazine: First Bras Come to the Omo Valley in Ethiopia

Bras come to Omo: On our second trip (late 2009), the writer and I both notice that the first bras had come into these villages.  This woman is holding her new bra out to dry after washing it by squirting water onto it from her mouth. She is trying to decide if she will wear it to the village dance tonight (she decided not to).  The bras in these villages are not the result of missionary pressure.  The women look at them as a way to make themselves prettier for special events.