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Estelle Joan Sommers

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Estelle Joan Sommers · Arts & Literature

What

Estelle Joan Sommers was a designer, entrepreneur, and executive who made her career in retail dancewear, introducing innovative designs for Capezio’s dance and exercise clothing.

When

12 October 1919

Biography

Estelle Joan Sommers is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Estelle Joan Sommers was a designer, entrepreneur, and executive who made her career in retail dancewear, introducing innovative designs for Capezio’s dance and exercise clothing.

How & why

Estelle Joan Sommers was a designer, entrepreneur, and executive who made her career in retail dancewear, introducing innovative designs for Capezio’s dance and exercise clothing. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Meira Eliash-Chain, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Meira Eliash-Chain

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Estelle Joan Sommers was a designer, entrepreneur, and executive who made her career in retail dancewear, introducing innovative designs for Capezio’s dance and exercise clothing.

1919

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Meira Eliash-Chain