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Title
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Kansas City's First Fashion Show a Success
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Description
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Article reviews the fashion show exhibited by ten Kansas City houses with a total of 120 garments displayed by 18 live models at the Jack O' Lantern hall at Westport and Main Streets attended by 600 persons. It lists the ten participating houses, as well as millinery houses who also held fashion shows in the week.
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Date
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1925-08-18
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Donnelly Garment Company
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Description
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Interior view of pageant during company children's Christmas party held at the Pla-Mor Ballroom.
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Date
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1939-12
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Annual Picnic - Donnelly Garment Company - Winnwood Beach
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Description
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Panoramic group portrait of employees of the Donnelly Garment Company and their friends and family members taken at Winnwood Beach. Several employees in attendance are wearing Nelly Don hats.
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Date
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1930-07-19
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC229 Garment Industry Oral History Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains DVDs and transcripts that were created as part of a Kansas City Garment Industry History Project. The collection consists of oral history interviews and supplemental audiovisual materials related to the Garment Industry.
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Date
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1938/2020
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Steve Higinbotham
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Description
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A series of seven short papers that include topics as the Kansas City Garment Industry; the Donnelly Garment Company; Stern, Slegman, Prins Inc.; Kansas City Shippers, Inc.; and personal activities as service with General George Patton, activities in the Episcopal Church Diocese of West Missouri, and reflections on the Depression era by Steve and Connie Higinbotham.
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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Interview with Bob Slegman
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Description
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Interview with Bob Slegman about his life and his family's company Stern-Slegman-Prins. He recounts his family history and their start manufacturing silk blouses, and his paternal Slegman family and maternal Stern family partnering up as "jobbers" who distributed wholesale garments to retailers, later manufacturing ladies' coats and suits, and notes that many other prominent garment industry companies had their roots in Stern-Slegman-Prins. He discusses the high quality of local manufacturing, and the operations, financing, and demographics of the work force, as well as his entry into the family business and his service as an Army Air Corps meteorologist during World War II. He shares photographs and other stories about the company, including their inability to have a company outing at Fairyland Park due to having black employees, and discusses the decline of the local garment industry and changes in fashion and retail in the 1970s. Anne Brownfield appears to show off details of a Stern-Slegman-Prins manufactured "Betty Rose" coat.
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Date
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2007-10-23
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Object Type
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Video Recording
