Dallas Fashion Project

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• Naomie Rudelson -26- Professional networking
  Fashion Group international, moving the fashion collection to the University of North Texas
• Naomie Rudelson -25- Dallas Apparel Mart, markets
  Dallas Apparel Mart site for connecting with manufacturers, working with intimate apparel buying by market season but apparel buyers there year-round
• Naomie Rudelson -24- Broader Dallas fashion industry
  Neiman-Marcus setting standard for industry, Sanger-Harris middle-ground and volume, working with many local manufacturers, sold a lot of juniors clothing produced by Jerry Frankel
• Naomie Rudelson -23- Feminism
  Feminism (and not identifying with it), team respecting her position regardless of gender
• Naomie Rudelson -22- Job hunting
  Looking at other positions, weighing opportunity and wages and city, as well as gender equality
• Naomie Rudelson -21- Leaving Sanger-Harris
  Leaving Sanger-Harris in 1978
• Naomie Rudelson -20- "My class ceiling"
  Experience as first female officer of a Federated store starting in 1974, affirmative action during management meeting, reaching "my glass ceiling"
• Naomie Rudelson -19- Sanger-Harris market
  Working in places that weren't designer-forward, mid-range and quantity
• Naomie Rudelson -18- Buying for Dallas market
  Styles and seasonality relating to Dallas climate and culture
• Naomie Rudelson -17- Traveling for work
  Traveling for work
• Naomie Rudelson -16- Sanger-Harris work culture and family
  Advancing beyond buyer level, bringing daughter to work at Sanger-Harris branch stores on Saturdays
• Naomie Rudelson -15- Pregnancy and growing family
  Experience being pregnant, growing a family, and working
• Naomie Rudelson -14- Family and career growth
  Building a career and family, importance of good childcare, Sanger Harris offices downtown
• Naomie Rudelson -13- Junior executive training program cont'd
  Cohort in junior executive training program, most rose to buyer level
• Naomie Rudelson -12- Professional advancement
  Pattern of training and advancement through department store
• Naomie Rudelson -11- Associated Merchandise Corporation
  Associated Merchandise Corporation, move from local to national scale
• Naomie Rudelson -10- Federated store development
  Federated store description as national chain, professional development through national chain
• Naomie Rudelson -9- Sanger Brothers to Sanger Harris, importance of childcare to advancement
  Community at Sanger Brothers, wedding to Moe, promotion to Highland Park branch of Sanger Brothers, then Preston Center branch, son born December 1957, finding childcare for son so could return to work, became buyer within about two years, promotion of junior executives, Sanger Brothers was Federated and bought A. Harris & Company around 1957
• Naomie Rudelson -8- Family and Sanger Brothers
  January 1956 started at Sanger Brothers, met husband there in March 1956, season change in children's department, seeing Sophie Tucker at the Adophus Hotel
• Naomie Rudelson -7- Sanger Brothers junior executive training program
  Junior executive training program at Sanger Brothers, description of classes in program, advancement through positions and departments
• Naomie Rudelson -6- Personal shopping
  Work as personal shopping at Dalton's
• Naomie Rudelson -5- Work during college
  Junior executive training program offered opportunity, work at Dalton's in college with permission from LSU Dean of Students, worked to pay for college
• Naomie Rudelson -4- Gus Mayer department store
  Gus Mayer department store job to save for college, lead to studying education as undergrad
• Naomie Rudelson -3- Early career
  Sanger Brothers junior executive training program, college job fair, department story weekly pay of $65/week, distributed education in high school lead to working at Gus Mayer in New Orleans, then Dalton's Department Store in Baton Rouge as undergraduate
• Naomie Rudelson -2- Biographical information
  Biographical information