Bra burning makes short comeback

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- Bra burning is making a comeback in Johnstown, but feminists aren't behind the act.

A sign of feminine independence in the 1960s, the act was carried out Thursday by two women who will soon be laid off by a company that makes women's undergarments.

Karen Jones and Kathy Johnson wore foreign-made bras over their sweaters to protest planned cutbacks by Bestform Inc.

After a union meeting discussing 600 jobs that will be cut in Somerset and Cambria County by this summer, Jones took off her bra and held a burning cigarette lighter beneath it to set it on fire.

Jones said her bra, made in Taiwan, was meant to protest goods once made in the United States that are now manufactured in other countries.