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==Notable corsetmakers== *[[Roxey Ann Caplin]] - British writer and inventor<ref>[[s:Caplin - Health and Beauty (1864)/Appendix A|MADAME CAPLIN'S INVENTIONS FOR THE ADAPTATION OF THE DRESS TO THE BODY; THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH; The Cure of Deformity, and the Display of Beauty.]]</ref> *[[Catherine Allsop Griswold]] - a Connecticut corsetmaker who held 30 patents, the most of any woman in America at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1992/1/1992_1_22.shtml |title=AmericanHeritage.com / THE CHAMPION OF WOMEN INVENTORS |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113140854/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1992/1/1992_1_22.shtml |archive-date=2008-01-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/shocker/FemInv/most.html Most prolific women inventors - 1790-1895] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704190756/http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/shocker/FemInv/most.html |date=2008-07-04 }}</ref> *[[Thomas Paine]] - American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He trained to become a staymaker as a teenager, as it was his family trade, but did not stay in the profession after his teen years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Did Thomas Paine make corsets for a living? |url=https://thomaspaine.org/pages/resources/did-thomas-paine-make-corsets-for-a-living.html |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=thomaspaine.org |language=en}}</ref>
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