Market
Harborough:
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Market
Harborough is the quiet Midlands town whose corsetry once laced
and upholstered an empire.
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In the
local museum you can still see a pair of 'Swedish
maidens', the buxom copper forms upon which corsets were
starched into shape.
Most
famous by far of Harborough's foundation garments was the liberty
bodice, designed in 1908 by Fred Cox for his daughter, Freda.
This was an underwear
revolution that freed a generation of children from the
constrictions of Victorian corsetry.
By the
1930s, the firm of R&WH Symington & Co were producing 3.5
million liberty bodices a year. It was Market Harborough's great gift to
the World.
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Market Harborough
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