January 9, 1886 – I dreamed I wrote a blog in my Maidenform bra

Does this woman look like someone who would revolutionize women’s undergarments and launch a successful and risqué advertising campaign for bras? Maybe not, but looks can deceive and today in NJ history –January 9— Ida Cohen Rosenthal, the co-founder of Maidenform Bra company was born in Rakow, Russia in 1886. She emigrated to the United States in 1905, began working as a seamstress and married William Rosenthal in 1907, whom she had known in Russia.