Historic Garment District Museum honors KC’s fashionable past
Kansas City Star
November 7, 2009
Touring downtown’s Historic Garment District Museum offers far more than a lesson on Kansas City’s garment-making legacy. Anyone interested in the history of Kansas City — or the history of the 20th-century working woman — will find something to enjoy here.
Stand in the lobby, turn 360 degrees, and you’ll see the sorts of iconic dresses women wore in the mid-20th century. Gay Gibson, Betty Rose, Hal Hardin and Miss Couture were dressmaker brands and labels found in women’s clothing stores all over the country and made right here in Kansas City.
