Redfern & Sons (later Redfern Ltd), was a British company, originally a simple tailor-cutter who became a renowned fashion house, which has its origins in the middle of the 19th century in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. It was founded by John REDFERN in Cowes, then developed in France by Charles POYNTER around the 1870s, to quickly spread throughout the world by the opening of several branches in London, Paris, or New York in the following decades. It is attributed to the house the invention of the women's costume suit on the symbolic date of 1885, for which the name of Redfern is regularly cited. But the house made all types of garments of the women's wardrobe and in France became a member of the Syndicat Chambre de la Couture Parisienne during the 20th century. It was, around the 1900s, a prolific and prestigious house in France, England and the United States, an essential signature of the fashion of the time. The Paris branch, the main place of the company's success, closed in 1929, briefly reopened in 1936, and closed again in 1940.