In the days when women wore corsets on a daily basis they were very often tailor made. There used to be ladies who offered a discreet measuring service and sent the clients' measurements away to be transformed into pink scaffolding, all structured with whale bone, lacing, hooks and eyes and padding. These ladies had a sign by their front door, usually in fancy poker-work, that said "Spirella". Thank God, they've all been superceded by body-shapers and the wonder-bra.
