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| In a ], ] determined that a woman's cleavage, or lack thereof, constitutes 64.3% of a man's initial attraction- thus proving that men enjoy fat titties over trunk space. | |||
| In Britain and South Africa (but not the United States), ] marketer ] has proclaimed the first Friday in April as National Cleavage Day, a day for women to wear cleavage enhancing ensembles and for men to avert their gaze. | |||
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Cleavage is the cleft created by the partial exposure of a woman's breasts, particularly when exposed by low-cut clothing. The neckline of a garment that exposes cleavage is known as décolletage. Exposure of the "down under" side of the breast such as below an extremely short crop top is known as Australian cleavage (see example).
A brief history of cleavage
Cleavage as we know it became fashionable in Europe in the late 15th century with bodices and corsets that flattened the lower part of the breast and pushed up the upper part. Cleavage fell out of fashion during the 1920s in favor of the flat-chested flapper look. The full figured look returned in the 1940s with the sweater girl look popularized by actresses Lana Turner and Jane Russell.
Technical terminology
"Intermammary sulcus" or "intermammary cleft" are the terms adopted by the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists for female cleavage.
Trivia
In a recent study, German scientists determined that a woman's cleavage, or lack thereof, constitutes 64.3% of a man's initial attraction- thus proving that men enjoy fat titties over trunk space.