Spirella was a company which manufactured made-to-measure corsets. It was founded in 1904 and was bought in 1989 by the rival Spencer company. It had factories in the USA (New Haven, Connecticut, Meadville, Pennsylvania) and the UK (Letchworth, England). Its most popular corset was the Model 305. Spirella products were not sold in shops. Instead, staff called corsetieres were sent to its customers' houses.
One hundred years on from 1904, the Spirellacorset can still be purchased as a made-to-measure foundation, albeit re-incarnated as the Spencer 'posture corset' after the take over of Spirella (UK) in 1988.
Spirella’s first corsets were produced in 1904 in America and 1910 in Britain.
Spirella, like all the major manufacturers, used pictures from the uncompromisingly realistic to the romantic ideal.
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