Support garment with cantilevered sinusoidal support form

A support garment comprising:

• a support band extending around a wearer's torso and
• two cups secured to the support band, each cup having a cavity for receiving a breast of a wearer and provided with a one-piece, molded undulatory support structure including:
• (a) a medial support comprising a plurality of support segments joined to one another and extending in two or more directions and a support hammock attached across two or more support segments of the medial support;
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• (b) a pair of lateral support appendages joined to the support segments of the medial support through a pair of fulcrums;
• wherein the undulatory support structures are disposed in the cups spaced from a caudal edge of the respective cup and are shaped to follow a curvature of a base of an idealized breast and are adapted to expand in response to applied force and recoil when applied force is removed, and wherein the garment and support structures are configured and adapted to have the following further attributes:
• (i) when worn, the medial supports are positioned about the base of wearer's breasts, such that the medial supports are below nipple areolar complexes of the breasts, the fulcrums are proximate inframammary folds of the wearer and the support appendages extend craniad, the support appendages are secured to the cups or to the support band such that a weight of the breasts is supported about the base of the breast by the medial supports and the breasts of the wearer are supported away from inframammary folds of the wearer and wherein vertical forces due to the weight of the breasts on the support structures are redirected to a back of the wearer and away from shoulders of the wearer though the fulcrums, the lateral support appendages and the support band;
• and
• (ii) said support hammocks extend between two or more support segments of the medial supports in order to further support the base of the breasts of the wearer away from the inframammary folds of the wearer;
• wherein each support hammock has a concave boundary adjacent the inframammary fold, said concave boundary extending from the pair of fulcrums across the base of the wearer's breast.

A support garment, comprising:

• a support band operative to extend around a wearer's torso;
• two cups secured to the support band, each cup having a cavity for receiving a breast of the wearer;
• a shoulder strap affixed to each cup;
• and
• a pliable, resilient, one-piece, molded brace disposed in each cup, spaced from a caudal edge of the cup and from the respective shoulder strap, having a continuous curving structure comprising a first lateral support appendage seamlessly joined by a first fulcrum to a medial support, said medial support extending from the first fulcrum across a base of the cup to a second fulcrum, said medial support seamlessly joined by the second fulcrum to a second lateral support appendage;
• the first and second lateral support appendages each terminating at an end;
• wherein when the support garment is worn, the medial support in each cup is positioned about a base of the wearer's breast, the first and second fulcrums are proximate inframammary folds of the wearer, and the first and second lateral support appendages extend craniad, such that the breasts of the wearer are supported away from the inframammary folds and vertical forces due to breast weight on the medial supports are redirected from the wearer's shoulders to the wearer's back though the first and second fulcrums, the first and second lateral support appendages, and the support band.