BRASSIERE

A padded type brassiere has a pair of padded bust-supporting cups, a longitudinally resilient under-bust, body encircling band, a pair of resilient shoulder straps secured to the outer side-portion of the bust cups, and a pair of resilient gussets secured to the upper outer quadrants of the bust cups and the adjacent shoulder straps. The gussets flex in response to tension applied to the shoulder straps to maintain the bust cups in a relatively fixed position in relation to the under-bust band. The bust cups have a pad of soft fibrous material integral therewith, each forming a shelf along a generally diagonal line of the cup to push the bust of the wearer upwardly and inwardly of its normal unsupported position.