Spiegelhalter Gantiers-Culottiers (French, 1820 - 1870)

SPIEGELHALTER is a family run workshop, specialized in men's clothings items, mostly trousers. Jean Baptiste SPIEGELHALTER invented wide buckskin pants in 1820, and he obtained an honorable mention in 1827, the shop was located at 37 rue Richelieu. In 1834, in his shop at 26-28 place Vendome, he offered buckskin pants, white buckskin breeches for hunting, buckskin gaiters, reindeer gloves, buckskin gloves, buckskin suspenders, collars from his factory. . In 1838, he appeared as a supplier to the Duke of Orleans and his house. In 1857, a mention of a second store at 103 Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs. This same year the name changes and become "Spiegelhalter frères" (Spiegelhalter brothers) (it is assumed that the business has been taken over by his sons - Jean Baptiste Xavier SPIEGELHALTER and Jacques Eugène SPIEGELHALTER). In 1860, the business moved to 6 rue de la Paix, and are defined as tailors, breeches and designers of hunting costumes. The last mention of Spiegelhalter frères in the specialized press appears in 1870, the year Jacques Eugène SPIEGELHALTER dies.