Prosthetic brassiere

A prosthesis and breast supporting brassiere comprising a body-encircling band structure having rear ends with interengageable means and adapted to be joined at the back of the user and having a front portion defining and provided with a pair of laterally spaced, laterally extending upwardly opening breast and prosthesis receiving and supporting pockets, separate means for providing equalized vertical support for each of said pockets including a shoulder strap having a rear end attached to the rear end portion of the band related to the pocket and a front end portion at the front of the user and defining a loop and a second strap having ends attached to the upper edge of the band at the opposite ends of the pocket and extending upwardly into sliding engagement through said loop, resilient means carried by the portions of the band adjacent each pocket constantly operative to apply a vertical spreading bias in and through said portions of the band and applying a lifting bias along a portion of a line defined by the junction of the breast and body engaging surfaces of the band, a pair of laterally spaced substantially forwardly projecting, rearwardly opening semi-conical breast and prosthesis covering and forming cups, each arranged forward of one of said pockets and having substantially laterally outwardly and upwardly extending outer lower edge portions adjacent and fixed to related outer lower edge portions of the cup, laterally substantially inwardly and upwardly extending inner lower edge portions terminating adjacent the upper edge of the band at the center thereof and having substantially upwardly convergent upper inner and outer edge portions extending from the inner and outer ends of the pocket toward the front end portions of the shoulder strap related thereto, releasable coupling means between the junction of said upper inner and outer edge portions of each cup and the shoulder strap related thereto, and a substantially flat vertical rear panel corresponding in general vertical rear plane configuration with each cup with which a prosthesis is related and positioned rearward of the cup and its related portions of the band in overlying relationship with the open rear of the cup and having edge portions adjacent the band fixed to the band, the forward portion of the band comprises two normally flat vertical plies of fabric, the upper and lower laterally extending edges of which are stitched and bound, said pockets are defined by laterally extending normally forwardly and upwardly inclined members adjacent opposite side portions of the forward portion of the band with forwardly laterally outwardly and thence inwardly curved upper edges in substantially common planes with their adjacent upper edge portions of the band and with laterally outwardly and downwardly and thence upwardly and outwardly curved lower edges fixed to their adjacent portions of the band on lines between the upper and lower edges thereof wherein said resilient means includes a resilient rod bent into a U-shaped form and disposed between the plies of the portions of the band with which it is related with its bend end portion in spaced relationship from and disposed toward the front center portion of the band and with its opposite leg portions extending laterally outwardly in seated substantially parallel relationship with the stitched and bound upper and lower edges of the band.