Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1892 – January 24, 1970) was the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra, an American...
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Ernest Hemingway, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Polly took the name Caresse, and Crosby and she founded the Black Sun Press. It was the first to publish...
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Black Sun Press (section Caresse continues publishing)
Manikin Press. American expatriates living in Paris, Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse Crosby (American inventor of the modern bra) founded the press to...
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Barnes, Natalie Barney, Sylvia Beach, Erik Satie, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Caresse Crosby, Nancy Cunard, H.D., Janet Flanner, Jane Heap, Maria Jolas, Mina Loy...
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first patent issued to Mary Phelps Jacob, later and better known as Caresse Crosby. In the 1930s, brassiere/brassière was gradually shortened to bra. The...
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difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." The heiress Caresse Crosby, the inventor of the brassiere, organized a farewell fancy dress ball...
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supplanted by the brassiere, first patented in the 20th century by Caresse Crosby. When the First World War broke out, women found themselves filling...
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literary journal published between 1945 and 1947. It was edited by Caresse Crosby and published through her Black Sun Press. Only six issues were published...
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executive. Cason Crane 2011, mountain climber Caresse Crosby 1910 (Mary Phelps Jacob, Mrs. Harry Crosby), socialite, poet Jamie Lee Curtis '76, BAFTA...
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Surrealismo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali (TV – 2002) as Caresse Crosby The Falklands Play (TV – 2002) as Jeane Kirkpatrick Bob the Builder:...
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and Latin America. In 1910, Mary Phelps Jacob (known later in life as Caresse Crosby), a 19-year-old New York socialite, purchased a sheer evening gown for...
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limited-run, loose-leaf broadside collection printed in 1946 and edited by Caresse Crosby. Failing to break into the literary world, Bukowski grew disillusioned...
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Polly Young (1749–1799), English soprano, composer and keyboard player Caresse Crosby (1891–1970), American art patron, poet, publisher, peace activist and...
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Gertrude Stein, Stephen Vincent Benét, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others. After Monnier's...
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Night, Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, Natasha in Three Sisters, Caresse Crosby in Divine Gossip (Barbican, 1988) and Katherine in The Strange Case...
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Editors who joined the journal later on were Stuart Gilbert, Caresse Crosby and Harry Crosby. Maeve Sage acted as secretary for the magazine during a portion...
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Years: The Crosbys: Harry and Caresse". Bonjour Paris. Retrieved February 26, 2014. Wolff 2003, p. 12. Conover, Anne (1989). Caresse Crosby: From Black...
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fellow Boston Brahmin, hedonistic poet and publisher Harry Crosby, whose wife Caresse Crosby was the first recipient of a patent for the modern bra. In...
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disdain from the general population Mary Phelps Jacob, later known as Caresse Crosby, founded the organization during the 1950s. Part of her work for the...
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VAN R. CROSBY". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 November 2016. Greenberg, Arnie (4 April 2005). "The Glory Years: The Crosbys: Harry and Caresse". Bonjour...
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and art figures, such as Katie Boyle, George Antheil, and Harry and Caresse Crosby. The Belgian author Georges Simenon (1903–1989), creator of the fictional...
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buttocks. In 1914, New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob (better known as Caresse Crosby) patented the garment as "the backless brassiere"; after making a few...
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founder, awards Caresse Crosby '11 the eagle and the amulet, thereby making her the (unofficial) first American Girl Scout. 1911: Caresse Crosby graduates....
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English footballer. Bert Young may also refer to: Bert Young, husband of Caresse Crosby Bert Young (actor) in Nutty but Nice Albert Young (disambiguation) Robert...
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Cohen, poet, publisher Cid Corman Gregory Corso Malcolm Cowley Caresse Crosby Harry Crosby, "Black Sun Press" Robert Crumb, comics E.E. Cummings Edward...
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before the Wright Brothers, confirmed in the Bridgeport Post. 1914 – Caresse Crosby, the woman credited with inventing the modern bra, sold her patent to...
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In 1934, Lee began a love affair with publisher and peace activist Caresse Crosby, despite the threat of miscegenation laws. They often had lunch in uptown...
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whalebone corset, New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob (better known as Caresse Crosby) created the first brassière from two handkerchiefs and some ribbon...
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Brewster on the bra Duncan Trussell on Thomas Edison Cast: Parker Posey as Caresse Crosby Martin Starr as Alexander Graham Bell Jason Ritter as Elisha Gray Craig...
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Crosbys: Harry and Caresse". Bonjour Paris. Retrieved February 26, 2014. Wolff 1976, pp. 12. Conover, Anne (1989). Caresse Crosby: From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda...
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