Caresse Crosby belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.
The record lists Caresse Crosby as American publisher, activist, and inventor of the bra (1892–1970).
Caresse Crosby was born at New York City in 1892. Her recorded nationality is United States. She was educated at Choate Rosemary Hall.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.
She worked as publisher, writer and socialite.
Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.
That the business was built from United States shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Caresse Crosby died in 1970, aged 78. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at Choate Rosemary Hall
