Playtex, which renamed its industrial division ILC Dover during the spacesuit work (after its Delaware headquarters), brought skilled seamstresses over from its consumer products factories. ... The Playtex / ILC suits worked perfectly, and they became powerful cultural symbols.

Who made the original space suits?

Emilio Herrera, the Spaniard Who Invented the Space Suit.

Who made the space suits for Apollo 11?

When Jeanne Wilson was seven, her mother taught her to sew. By age nine, Wilson was designing and making dolls' clothes. Ten years later, in 1969, she was one of several seamstresses at ILC Dover who made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's spacesuits for the Apollo 11 Moon landing.