At the beginning of the past century, they worked at home, our great grandma and grandma sewed the shirts for the italian army during the first world war.

Then came the time when grandma and Mrs. Elvira's mother sowed for the parish, the mayor and for the physician of the village.

Mrs. Elvira used to say "I left school when I was 9 (years old), I was a good student, but at home they needed help with the sewing. We would get up at six in the morning and we boiled the insides of the collars in a big pot. Then we had to wet the cloths and in the evening we had to finish sewing button holes and finally the buttons were put on."

In the thirties, shirts were in high fashion especially among the young and we had a lot of work.

After WWI, Mrs. Elvira's brother, Elio, opened one of the first shirt factories in Padua with about one hundred workers; here Mrs. Elvira worked for 10 years: she remembered "I was small and my brother used to take me to work on the bar of his bike".

In the following years she perfected her profession in Cavalier Regona's shirt shop. My first day he gave me a piece of fabric and told me to make him a shirt. I made it..and he was so satisfied that he was immediatly proud of me.

When her secound child was born, Mrs. Elvira opened in her home a little shop of hand made shirts and there she worked for many years.

In 1993 Giampietro (her secound child) opened the "atelier" on 58, Pertile st., Padua, with his sister in law Simonetta, his wife and under the supervision of his mother (Mrs. Elvira). In december 2001 they were awarded the prize for originality and dedication in tradition conferred the mayor.

In december 2003 the city of Padua award.

and the tradition continues...