13 JULY 1991, Page 25

Cross dresser

Sir: Ian Waller (Letters, 27 April) rumin- ates upon a particular design of female apparel: namely, the Kestos bra designed by Leo Klin. I remember this design well from Mr Waller's description. It hung on my mother's washing-line when I was a child. She was born in 1901 and I am, necessarily, younger. But Mr Waller's re- marks led me to contemplate the design of the bra: if men find it easier to unfasten a front-fastening bra, and men design bras, why are there so few 'front-fasteners' on the market? I can assure anyone interested that front-fastening bras are beautifully simple to dress oneself in whereas back- fasteners are truly devilish and require contortions of limb and trunk that are almost physically painful for the successful fastening thereof. And how many of my bra-wearing 'sisters' have male assistance always when they dress and undress? Yet my recent contemplation of mail-order catalogues has shown only about two front- fastening versions of the bra. Why, I wonder?

Thelma Stuart

Plantation Cottage,Hallmoor Road, Matlock, Derbyshire