About Us : Beautiful British Handmade Lingerie

The 'Ella Bodi' brand of British handmade lingerie was originally born from our involvement in a television documentary, 'Mary's Bottomline' in conjunction with Channel 4 & passionate retail guru Mary Portas.

Mary's been in the fashion & retail business for over thirty years and owing to her enduring & absolute passion for quintessentially English products, in 2011 she wanted to create an entirely British lingerie brand, with specific attention given to styling & comfort, delivering huge heaps of glamour to the wearer. 

Ella Bodi, has over 85 years of specialist lingerie & sleepwear manufacturing knowledge and is the brand name for the historic Headen & Quarmby Limited, named after it's founders Mary Headen & Eric Quarmby.

 We were delighted to partner Mary on her journey in order to prove that making beautiful lingerie, back here in Great Britain, was not only viable but also had many benefits such as employment, welfare & re-skilling opportunities, local regeneration assistance & sustainable, carbon neutral advantages. 

Each & every garment is made to very high quality, exacting standards, with all the love & care you'd expect by our production team here in Middleton, Greater Manchester and one of our missions is to shine a light back on Great British Manufacturing.

At one point in time, Manchester was a manufacturing colossus, fondly remembered as 'Cottonopolis' and was once a centre for high quality lingerie production.  Unfortunately, in response to ever increasing market pressures over the last three decades garment production rapidly moved offshore leaving only a few, small & very specialised businesses behind.

Ella Bodi is one of those businesses!

As well as producing the 'Kinky Knicker' garment range, under Mary's watchful eye & close involvement, Ella Bodi work continuously & diligently on new design ideas in order to bring beautifully made, comfortable & inspired, truly British made lingerie to as many people as possible.

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