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That flow was staunched by the Aliens Act of 1905 but the rise of fascism saw another 50,000 Jewish refugees, including Gita Peller, arrive from Austria, Germany and central Europe in the 1930s.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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Rigby & Peller has also played its part in the showbusiness tradition, by providing the corsetry that underpinned The Two Ronnies' costume extravaganzas in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the antics of Dick Emery and Benny Hill.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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As the cold war ushered in jutting, cone-shaped bras, the business passed to Peller's cousin, who continued its bespoke service despite the industry's own nuclear threat: the Wonderbra, which rose to prominence, so to speak, in North America in the late 1960s.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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A rummage through the Rigby & Peller archive, which is stored in silk-lined suitcases in an office above its Conduit Street store in Mayfair, shows that a lot has changed since Vogue coined the term "brassiere" in 1907.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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And as far as Rigby & Peller are concerned, those two should be in the cups.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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When Kenton and her husband Harold got the opportunity to buy Rigby & Peller in 1982, the business was struggling.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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Indeed, in the video for her recent single Alejandro, Lady Gaga is vamping it up in a pair of Rigby & Peller lace pants, and not much else.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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Last week Rigby & Peller, the now-famous lingerie business founded by the nimble-fingered Bertha Rigby and Gita Peller, was sold in a deal that valued the company at nearly £10m.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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Peller was taken in by Rigby when she arrived in Britain, and the duo established a company that, over the past 70 years, has become recognised as the gold standard in lingerie.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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The small brass plaque reads B Rigby and G Peller, corsetières.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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