KC Garment District Museum holds key to fashion history
NBC Action News
February 20, 2011
KANSAS CITY, Missouri – The Kansas City Garment District Museum sits at West 8th Street and Broadway, in the heart of downtown.
Ann Brownfield is the museum’s curator, but she also has first-hand knowledge of what used to be in the area.
The garment factories of Kansas City began to pop up on the upper floors of dry goods companies in the 1920s. After World War I, the men coming back from overseas didn’t want to go back to farm life after seeing the big cities of Europe.
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.
