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Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
A41317-1
Date(s)
- 1949-03-18 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Knettle's Corset Shop, managed by Alice A. Gunderson, was located at 922 Broadway in Tacoma's business and shopping district. This March, 1949, view of a window display at Knettle's Corset Shop featured "Perma-lift" brassieres, girdles and slips. A newspaper advertisement for Knettle's advertised the "Perma-lift" girdles for $7.50 and $8.50 and said Knettle's was the shop "Where corsetry is an art."
Lingerie; Clothing stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Window displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Knettle's Corset Shop (Tacoma);