would be asked to travel braless as not to set off the metal detectors
Not necessary, they make bras with plastic underwire for just this reason.
btw, S.J Perleman wrote a story about a man who stole a frozen chicken from a supermarket by putting it under his hat. Unfortunately, the checkout line was so slow that he fainted from the cold
The one up side about the new security measures is that you get to see a lot of yound ladies holding leather belts and looking not a little angry. I used to have to pay good money for that