KESTOS

Kestos is a British lingerie[1] brand founded in London in 1925 by the Polish-born designer Rosaline Kiln.[2][3] Kestos major innovation[4] to the feminine underwear in the 1930s was the development of the two separate cups model.[5][6] Rosaline Kiln, director of the Kestos Corset Company, started experimenting with a pair of hankies, just like Caresse Crosby[7][8] back in 1913. Kestos bra was the first commercially produced brassiere that had two distinct and defined cups[9] and "the Kestos" became a generic trademark bra.[10][11][12] Kestos is distributed in the US,[13] UK, Canada, Australia, France as well as some other European countries[14] and was popular through the 30's, 40's and into the early 50's.[15]

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  2. ↑ "The Sydney Morning Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  3. ↑ http://www.siwcostumers.org/newsletterarchive/VirtCostV8-I3-2010/VirtCostV8-I3-2010_15-bra.pdf
  4. ↑ "Vintage Bras Inspire Modern Lingerie Designers on Lingerie Briefs". lingeriebriefs.com. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  5. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/where-oh-where-is-the-underwear-1247766.html0
  6. ↑ "100 years of the BRA; WE INVITE YOU TO RAISE YOUR CUPS AND TOAST.. - Free Online Library". thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  7. ↑ http://www.iffti.com/downloads/past_conferences/Ryerson,%202007/2.3-Proctor.pdf
  8. ↑ "Hoorah for the bra!". smh.com.au. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  9. ↑ "Partial Coverage - The Kestos Brasierre: The First Of Its Kind". dollhousebettie.com. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  10. ↑ Pauline Thomas. "Bra History - Bras and Girdles - A Fashion History". fashion-era.com. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  11. ↑ "100 YEARS OF THE BRA - Mirror Online". mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  12. ↑ "http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=constructing". digitalcommons.iwu.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-08. External link in |title= (help)
  13. ↑ "The New Yorker Digital Edition : Dec 07, 1935". archives.newyorker.com. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  14. ↑ "Museum of London Blog Is that Aristoc or Kira sheer? » Museum of London Blog". blog.museumoflondon.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  15. ↑ Farrell-Beck, J.; Gau, C. (2002). Uplift: The Bra in America. University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated. p. 78. ISBN 9780812218350. Retrieved 2015-07-08.

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