The Spirella Company - Corset Makers & Corsetieres

The Spirella factory was built between 1912 and 1920. The American company revolutionised the manufacture of corsets, and came to Letchworth Garden City in 1910. The company’s motto was ‘Healthy Happy Workers are the World’s Best’. Thousands of people from the Garden City and around worked at the factory, and the building is a much-loved Letchworth landmark.

Packed full of objects & old photographs & ephemera from the museum's collections, this major exhibition will explore the history of the magnificent Spirella Building, the company and the corsets it made, and the lives of some of those 'Healthy Happy Workers', and will open in March 2012...

If you would like to get involved - if you have photographs or memories of Spirella - please get in touch with us by telephone on 01462 482710 or email josh.tidy@letchworth.com