Spirella Building
Spirella was a company which manufactured made-to-measure corsets. It was founded on a patent of dressbone, for bustles (Spirella 1 and Spirella 2), but started corset manufacture in 1904.
Its most popular corset was the Model 305. Spirella products were not sold in shops. Instead, female staff called corsetiers were sent to customer's homes.
After an ill-fated attempt to market garments of "Stub-tex", a form of Gore-Tex being used under licence from W. L. Gore & Associates, the company was sold in 1985 to the rival Spencers of Banbury and finally closed in July 1989.
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