A handbra is the practice of covering female nipples and areolae with hands or arms. It often is done in compliance with censors' guidelines, public authorities and community standards when female breasts are required to be covered in film or other media. If the arms are used instead of the hands the expression is arm bra. The use of long hair for this purpose is called a hair bra.
Woman demonstrating a handbra
Pillar figure shows antiquity of "handbra"-like pose
Jeune fille en buste, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, c.1794
Michele Merkin in 2006
More Demi Moore or the August 1991 Vanity Fair cover was a controversial handbra nude photograph of then seven-months pregnant Demi Moore taken by Annie Leibovitz for the August 1991 cover of Vanity Fair to accompany a cover story about Moore.
August 1991 More Demi Moore cover
Leibovitz in 2008 standing in front of her More Demi Moore photo
Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult advertisement