Lane Bryant began as a maternity-wear brand and soon introduced dedicated plus-size lines, coining and legitimizing the term.

The reasons were simple – good products, and a respect and love for the customer. Lane Bryant made fashionable, stylish clothing of all kinds for their special-sized customers. They didn’t marginalize ...

Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. In 1909, dressmaker Lena Bryant was working out of a shop on 5th Avenue and 120th Street in Harlem. There, under the Lane Bryant label, she designed and ...

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