{"id":10139,"date":"2012-02-16T04:51:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T04:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2012-02-16T04:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T04:51:48","slug":"wear-gossard-corsets-they-lace-in-front-chicago-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2012\/02\/16\/wear-gossard-corsets-they-lace-in-front-chicago-il\/","title":{"rendered":"Wear Gossard Corsets – They Lace in Front – Chicago, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n

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1913 Ad H W Gossard Maternity Corset Abdominal Support<\/p><\/div>\n

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Courtesy of Bobbins & Bombshells<\/p><\/div>\n

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The movement of factories to find lower labor costs is not something that started when shoes began to be made in China. In 1920 Gossard opened a factory in Ishpeming, Michigan that eventually employed 600 women, Once it was the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (and, to a much greater extent, the American south) that offered a ready supply of inexpensive non-unionized labor. I knew a woman who came to the U.P. in the late 1940s to organize the workers for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. After a long strike, she succeeded and the plant continued for another 20 years after that, finally closing in 1966.\u00a0There’s a nice exhibit about “The Gossard” in the Cliffs Mine Museum in Ishpeming and a brief article about it\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0Best quote:”You were a forward thinking woman if you wore a front-lacing corset.” –<\/em>\u00a0Comment from Yooperann on Chicago Man’s Flickr Photostream<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n