- Spirella
Spirella was a company which manufactured made-to-measure
corset s. It was founded on a patent of dressbone, for bustles (Spirella 1 and Spirella 2), but start by corset in 1904 and was bought in 1985 by the rivalSpencers of Banbury and final closure in July 1989. It had factories in the USA (New Haven, Connecticut ,Meadville, Pennsylvania ), the UK (Letchworth, England) and Sweden (Malmö ). Its most popularcorset was the Model 305. Spirella products were not sold in shops. Instead, female staff calledcorsetier s were sent to customer's homes.wikisource
* [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Spirella Spirella Corsets]
External links
* [http://www.familyoldphotos.com/pa/crawford/2s/spirella_corset_company_seamstre.htm Photograph of Spirella workers in Meadville, Pennsylvania]
* [http://www.spirella.com/ Spirella's factory in Letchworth, England (now offices)]
* [http://www.corsetiere.net/Spirella/History.htm History of Spirella]
* [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/studentlife/e-journal/Head_Rachael.pdf Women’s Corsetry 1850-1989: A Case Study into the Spirella Corset Company of Great Britain. Note: 3mb]
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