Kestos is a British lingerie [1] brand founded in London in 1925 by British designer Rosamund Lilian Klin, (1899-1949) the wife of a Russian artist living in London. [2] Kestos' major innovation [3] to the feminine underwear in the 1930s was the development of the two separate cups model. [4] [5] Rosamund Klin, director of the Kestos Corset Company, started experimenting with a pair of hankies, just like Caresse Crosby [6] [7] back in 1913. Kestos' bra was the first commercially produced brassiere that had two distinct and defined cups [8] and "the Kestos" became a generic trademark bra. [9] [10] [11] Kestos was distributed in the US, [12] UK, Canada, Australia, France as well as some other European countries [13] and was popular through the 1930s, 1940s and into the early 1950s. The Copmpany went into liquidation in 1967 prior to the death of the Chairman Leo Klin (1877-1967). [14]
Kestos is a British lingerie [1] brand founded in London in 1925 by British designer Rosamund Lilian Klin, (1899-1949) the wife of a Russian artist living in London. [2] Kestos' major innovation [3] to the feminine underwear in the 1930s was the development of the two separate cups model. [4] [5] Rosamund Klin, director of the Kestos Corset Company, started experimenting with a pair of hankies, just like Caresse Crosby [6] [7] back in 1913. Kestos' bra was the first commercially produced brassiere that had two distinct and defined cups [8] and "the Kestos" became a generic trademark bra. [9] [10] [11] Kestos was distributed in the US, [12] UK, Canada, Australia, France as well as some other European countries [13] and was popular through the 1930s, 1940s and into the early 1950s. The Copmpany went into liquidation in 1967 prior to the death of the Chairman Leo Klin (1877-1967). [14]