Kestos

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 company went into liquidation in 1967 prior to the death of the Chairman Leo Klin (1877-1967).^[14]