Hope chest
Japan’s latest novelty bra (yes, there’s more than one): the Marriage Hunting Bra.
Made by Triumph International, the hardly-intimate apparel features a pen for signing marriage contracts, a ring receptacle that plays “The Wedding March” when filled, and a timer that appears thematically relevant but whose actual purpose remains unclear.
Perhaps it’s performance art wrapped in a public service announcement inside a wardrobe malfunction. As Reuters notes: “Japan’s marriage rate is falling and the average age at which women get married is over 28 years, relatively late for a country in which single females were once considered over the hill at 25.”