Browse Items (63 total)
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Invoice from A. Werner
An invoice from A. Werner - Silversmiths and Electro Platers listing items purchased by Sister Aloyse Hessburg for the mother-of-the-groom dress she designed and created for Mrs. Frances Howard Robb, for the wedding of her son Charles Robb to Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, at the White House on December 9, 1967.
This invoice refers to the 4 buttons for the dress that Sister Rosemarita Huebner created. The invoice is dated 11/24 (1967) and according to Sister Aloyse's notes, the buttons were ready by 11/28. -
Barkin, Herman, Solocheck and Paulsen, Incorporated press release, August 13, 1975
A press release from Barkin, Herman, Solocheck and Paulsen, Incorporated, a public relations firm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for release August 13, 1975. The press release contains information about Sister Aloyse Hessburg of Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) being chosen to receive the 1975 Gimbels Fashion Forum Award. It also contains information about Sister Aloyse's background, the fashion program's history and composition, graduates from the program, and Gimbels Fashion Forum.
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Letter from Bonnie Cashin to Sister Aloyse Hessburg, October 1, 1980
A brief handwritten note from Bonnie Cashin to Sister Aloyse Hessburg, written on Cashin's personal stationery. -
Letter from Hildegarde to Sister Aloyse Hessburg, April 26, 1982
Letter from Hildegarde to Sister Aloyse Hessburg, April 26, 1982, in which Hildegarde discusses the upcoming fundraiser at Mount Mary College at which she will be performing. -
Letter from Robert C. Landsiedel to Sister Aloyse Hessburg, December 13, 1967
A letter from Robert C. Landsiedel, Associate Director of Alumni Affairs at Drexel Institute of Technology (where Sister Aloyse earned her master's degree in textiles) to Sister Aloyse Hessburg of Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Mr. Landsiedel extends congratulations to Sister Aloyse on her design of Mrs. James [Frances Howard] Robb's mother-of-the-groom dress for the wedding of her son Charles to Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, at the White House on December 9, 1967. He also asks for a photograph and a brief biography to use when mentioning her achievement in the spring 1968 alumni newsletter. -
Ronald Amey with students and Sister Aloyse Hessburg at Mount Mary College
This photograph appeared on page 44 of Arches 1968 (Mount Mary College's yearbook) with the following caption: "Cindy Gefke, Pat Day, Ellen Van Horn, and Sister M. Aloyse [Sister Aloyse Hessburg] listen attentively as Mr. Ronald Amey, New York designer, gives a critique on a budding designer’s sketch."
The exact date of the photograph is unknown, but Amey first visited Mount Mary College in 1965 and returned for student counseling sessions in 1966 (among possible other trips). -
Memo regarding Sister Aloyse Hessburg's appointment to Mount Mary's fashion design program, October 10, 1965
Memo from a meeting on October 10, 1965, in which Sister Aloyse Hessburg was appointed coordinator of Mount Mary College's Fashion Design program. The rationale for her appointment is included. -
Itinerary for 1975 tour of fashion manufacturing plants
Itinerary for a five-day trip in August 1975 to visit fashion manufacturing plants in the Midwest. Stops included the Stanbury Band Uniform plant (Brookfield, Missouri), the Allen-A plant (Piqua, Ohio), the Sand Knit plant (either Waupun or Berlin, Wisconsin, or possibly locations in both towns), and the "sox factory" (possibly Portage Hosiery Company) in Portage, Wisconsin. Members of the Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) fashion design program undertook this trip. -
Fashion design program course schedule for 1981-82
A tentative list of courses and the faculty teaching them for the 1981-82 fashion design program at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Fashion design faculty (1973?)
A list of Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) fashion design program faculty with their credits, contact hours, and equivalency credit hours, and a list of pre-registration student numbers by course in the fashion design program. The full names of the faculty are almost certainly: Barbara Borgwardt, Elaine Zarse, Carol Stowell, Sister Aloyse Hessburg (Fashion Program Coordinator).
This item is undated but is likely from 1973-74. (According to the fashion show program from spring 1974, there were five faculty members that year, including the four names listed on this item, and the name "Stowell" doesn't appear in the fashion show programs under "Faculty" in any other program 1972-1982.) -
Rationale for the Fashion Department (1984?)
A document giving a brief description of the fashion program at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a rationale for why the program should become its own department.
This item is undated but is likely from 1984.
To see the entire file, click on the pdf file beneath the image (Rationale for Fashion Dept mid-1980s.pdf). -
2013 Gold Needle Award program
A program for the 2013 Gold Needle Award event, where Sister Aloyse Hessburg received the award from Mount Mary University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). The program is subtitled "Fifty Years of Fashion" in honor of Sister Aloyse's decades of service to Mount Mary's fashion program. It contains an extensive overview of the fashion program and Sister Aloyse's contributions to it.
To see the entire program, click on the pdf file beneath the image (2013 S Aloyse Gold Needle Award.pdf). -
Letter from Frances Howard Robb to Sister John Francis Schuh, December 20, 1967
A letter from Mrs. Frances Howard Robb, mother of Charles Robb, to Sister John Francis Schuh, president of Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Mrs. Robb discusses the reaction to the dress she wore at her son's wedding to Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, at the White House on December 9, 1967. Sister Aloyse designed and created the dress and Sister Rosemarita created the buttons. Mrs. Robb indicates that she will return the dress to Mount Mary College; it is part of the Fashion Archive and has been digitized for the Digital Fashion Archive. -
Letter from Harry D. Schmidt to Sister Mary Nora Barber, February 6, 1976
Letter from Harry D. Schmidt, president of T.A. Chapman Co. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Sister Mary Nora Barber, president of Mount Mary College, mentioning Mr. Schmidt's visit with Sister Aloyse Hessburg (head of the fashion design program at Mount Mary) and complimenting the training Ruth McDuffie, a Chapman Co. employee and Mount Mary graduate, received at Mount Mary. -
Detail of shoulder of dress
Detail to show shoulder of dress.
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Letter from Sister Aloyse Hessburg to Bonnie Cashin, March 5, 1979
A brief letter from Sister Aloyse Hessburg to Bonnie Cashin in which the former discusses her trip with Mount Mary College students to visit the latter's New York studio. -
Detail of pocket
Detail to show pocket on dress.
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Detail of inside of dress
Detail to show inside of dress.
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Detail of buttons
Detail to show buttons on dress. The buttons were designed and made by Sister Rosemarita Huebner, SSND.
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Dress
Gold silk and faille taffeta dress; A-line construction; asymmetrical closure with hip zipper and four bound buttonholes; small stand-up collar; 3/4 length sleeves; fully lined.
Worn with matching hat (Object ID #1967.02). Worn by donor, Mrs. Frances Howard Robb, at the wedding of her son Charles Spittal Robb to Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, at the White House, December 9, 1967.
Designed by Sister Aloyse Hessburg, SSND. The buttons were designed and made by Sister Rosemarita Huebner, SSND.