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  2. Herminie Cadolle - Wikipedia

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    Herminie Cadolle was born, raised, and lived much of her early life in France. She was a close friend of the insurrectionist Louise Michel, who participated in the Paris Commune of 1871. Fearing state repression after the murderous defeat of the Commune uprising, Cadolle and her family fled for safety to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  3. History of bras - Wikipedia

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    According to Life magazine, Herminie Cadolle of France invented the first modern bra in 1889. [24] It appeared in a corset catalog as a two-piece undergarment, which she originally called the corselet gorge and later le bien-être or "the well-being". Her garment cut the traditional corset in two: The lower part was a corset for the waist, and ...

  4. Bra - Wikipedia

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    According to Cadolle Lingerie House, Herminie Cadolle, a French inventor, was the first inventor to patent the modern 'brassiere', called the "corselet-gorge", lingerie which separated the upper bra portion from the lower corset, the first step toward the modern bra. [27]

  5. Caresse Crosby - Wikipedia

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    Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1892 – January 24, 1970) [1] was the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra, [2] an American patron of the arts, a publisher, and the woman Time called the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris."

  6. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Herminie Cadolle (1845–1926), France – modern brassiere Robert Cailliau (born 1947), Belgium – with Tim Berners-Lee , the World Wide Web Edward A. Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Stock ticker tape

  7. Hermine - Wikipedia

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    Hermine, Herminie, or Hermin may refer to: People with the given name Hermine ... (1845–1926), inventor of the modern bra and founder of Cadolle house; D

  8. List of fashion designers - Wikipedia

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    Valentine Avoh; Maggy Baum; Dirk Bikkembergs; Veronique Branquinho; Christophe Coppens; Tim Coppens; Jules-François Crahay; Angele Delanghe; Ann Demeulemeester

  9. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/330 - Wikipedia

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    Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!; Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones.Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed).