 A man from Glattbach, a tailor named Johann Desch born in 1848, while in his shop hit on the idea of sewing suits by standard measurements ahead of time and having the sewing done by workers in their homes.These first ready-to-wear suits sold briskly in the growing industrial towns of Hanau, Frankfurt and Offenbach.The business quickly swelled, and Johann Desch bought a house in Aschaffenburg.