Oh, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha...

Holy cats! She's going to put someone's eye out.

Oh, I love it. "The gal with the BUSTY PERSONALITY"

There are pictures of my grandma looking a bit like this. She was a busty lady, too. It was the seaming in her bras.

I wonder if Marsha is still alive? Irving Park Rd runs from my general area and into the city. Somewhere along there, Marsha was making a name for herself

I was going to say the same thing as IAmUnoriginal. Most of the photos of my Grandma back in the day look a lot like that. Even when she got older, she would wear bras that looked pointy. She was a very buxom lady though, I think she felt she needed to buy super duper hold bras. I can remember being in the dressing room with her at Sears as a child while she was trying on blouses and asking her why there was no "space" in between her boobs.

Since she was a comedian, it could have been part of her schtick.

I was once with a friend who was flipping through a vintage Playboy and all the women's breasts were pointy. He asked me why they looked like that. The only reason I could think of was because the bras were made that way back then so maybe breasts kind of conformed to that shape?

I helped my grandma with laundry every Saturday when I was staying at her house. I was horrified by her bras. (This would have been mid-70s - mid 80s) When I had to go get my first training bra, I cried and cried. My mom couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. It was only a glorified ace bandage, after all. I finally wailed "I don't want boobs and bras like Grandma's." My dad cracked up. He'd always been pretty horrified my his MIL's pointy chest. (I don't know why I didn't notice that my paternal grandma didn't have torpedo boobs.) My mom had to explain to me that my grandma was old school and hadn't updated her bras to modern materials and styles in years. She even went and bought a ton of pointy bras when they started getting hard to find because she liked them so much. 

Grandma's bras were serious lessons in physics! Where I have a pretty thin strip of material and then an underwire under my breast, she had a 3"-4" band of sturdy girdle like (I knew girdles because of her, too.) material. The row of hooks in the back was either 4 or 5. The cups, besides being large enough to use as a hat (there's a picture somewhere at my dad's of my brothers wearing grandma's bra as a hat, one boy in each cup.), were structured. A layer of material next to the skin, a layer like thin but dense quilt batting and then the outer layer. There was a seam that ran horizontally that ran across the nipple area. It was that seam that structured the torpedo shape. Depending on your breast shape, the wearer would sometimes not fill out the tip of the torpedo. That was where women would stuff their bra to prevent the torpedo collapse. The straps -- holy crap! They were wide and heavy duty elastic. There was nothing sexy, delicate or feminine about grandma's bra. They were workhorses. I do a little hobby sewing. I've never put my hands on elastic as tough as what was on grandma's bras. Holy cow. Those bras were NUTS! I love my modern works of engineering magic with underwire and side boob elimination and stuff and am thankful we've come so far.

ETA: corrected by my aunt. The cups were 4 pieces. There was a vertical and a horizontal seam that formed sort of a cone and a large piece of that heavy girdle kind of material running between the breasts to separate and support.

I worked with a woman once who looked like that. She was very proud of her torpedoes, and would wear tight sweaters to emphasise them even more. She would have been in her late 50s at that time, so there was nothing natural about the shape and height! It was always amusing when new people started in the office, or we had visitors, because nobody, neither man nor woman, could take their eyes off them!

Burn the bra, Marsha.

Peace Out

I don't think it's just being busty. Look at Mary Tyler Moore on The Dick Van Dyke Show. It was definitely the way they were made back then.