Olga Erteszek

Otylia Erteszek,[1] known as Olga, and her husband Jan (1913–1986), a criminal lawyer who previously bore the name Jakob,[2] emigrated to the United States in 1941.

Fleeing Poland and the invading Nazi army, the young couple left their family, emigrating to Russia and Japan.

After spotting a woman on a trolley with hosiery rolled to her knees, Olga noted that many women didn't have at least some bit of finery to hold up their stockings.

Olga sewed a dozen or so lace-trimmed garter belts that Jan sold to a buyer at an elite department store.

Enduring from the 1940s to today, Olga was known as a leading makers of fashionable lingerie, sleepwear and loungewear in the United States.