Dallas Fashion Project

Items

• Practical Agriculture Journal 1904
  An issue of the Practical Agriculture Journal from 1904
• Timeline
  Timeline
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• Celeste Figs
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• Charentais melon
  Charentais melon grown by the Experiential Gardener.
• Armenian cucumber cut in half.
  Armenian cucumber cut in half.
• Armenian Cucumber.
  Metki Light Armenian cucumber.
• First tomatoes
  First tomatoes of the season.
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• Rhonda Love
  Photograph of Rhonda Love
• Peggy Heinkle-Wolfe
  Photograph of Peggy Heinkle-Wolfe
• Map of Texas Counties with Producing Wells in the Barnett Shale
  A map of producing wells on the Barnett Shale that is featured in "An Energy Revolution: 35 Years of Fracking in the Barnett Shale" by North Texans for Natural Gas.
• Nan Alexander -33- Clothing for different cities
  Styles specific to cities, Fort Worth as dressier, Dallas as more formal, more casual now
• Nan Alexander -32- Pucci and Texas Fashion Collection
  Modeling Emilio Pucci pieces, connection with Texas Fashion Collection
• Nan Alexander -31- Fashion Group
  Chapter of Fashion Group in major cities including Dallas, helped start the Texas Fashion Collection maybe lead by Alice Warren, wanted to move the Neiman-Marcus collection from the Apparel Mart to the University of North Texas with Ed Mattil, in personal life remarried and moved
• Nan Alexander -30- Kim Dawson Modeling Agency
  Fashion shows during market at Dallas Apparel Mart, allowed only to model for Kim or for Fashion Group or for Neiman-Marcus while employed at Neiman's, highlighted merchandise for sale that season from varied merchants to help sell for smaller companies
• Nan Alexander -29- Howard Wolf modeling
  Worked as model in manufacturing space, showing for buyers, also at Apparel Mart
• Nan Alexander -28- Job responsibilities
  Varied experiences of models from hands-on to Vogue modeling
• Nan Alexander -27- Howard Wolf description
  Manufacturing company in Fair Park, sold to stores around country but mainly regionally, sold in Dallas Apparel Mart, created young junior sizes that were five to thirteen with short waist rather than couture sizing, did everything from design to pattern making to manufacturing, worked as model and receptionist
• Nan Alexander -26- Trendy garments
  "Flops" went to Filene's in Boston, "silver key" didn't work with as many established designers, as buyer liked buying styles rather than designer names, before boutique retail where stores were for individual designers
• Nan Alexander -25- Buying NYC vs. Dallas
  Neiman's worked with buying office in NYC and worked with "more established merchants," carried Howard Wolf and some California designers who were at the Dallas Apparel Mart; Neiman-Marcus as trend setter, helped NYC merchants see what trends might be coming, couture department different and had runway shows
• Nan Alexander -24- Work as buyer
  Travel to NYC every six weeks, traveled locally to different branches and to Houston, worked in stores to make sure staff were familiar with different products, morning meeting where buyers shared new merchandise with size and color ranges, long hours and seven days a week, housekeeper helped with family
• Nan Alexander -23- Quality merchandise
  Teal-Traina, Valentino, Noguchi important, but quality overall at Neiman's was superb, companies "bent over backwards" once their materials were at Neiman-Marcus