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General Directions: Couture Construction
This fashion design manual was written by Sister Mary Aloyse Hessburg of the fashion design program at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Charles Kleibacker, a frequent contributor to the program, around 1980.
Two articles from Threads magazine and one from Canadian Home Economics Journal, all about Charles Kleibacker, that were included in the item were not scanned due to copyright.
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Custom Tailoring Manual
This fashion design manual was written by three staff/faculty members in the fashion design program at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, around 1980.
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Fashion show program 2019: Unscripted - off the cuff
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Fashion show program 2017: Transcend
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Fashion show program 2015: Ignite
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Fashion show program 2014: Pulse
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Fashion show program 2013: Juxtapose
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Fashion show program 2012: Evoke style
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Fashion show program 2010: Rapture
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Fashion show program 2009: Redux
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Fashion show program 2007: Auric Allure
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Ken Ross and Dorothy Fuller at Mount Mary College
Ken Ross (left), from JH Collectibles, talking with Dorothy Fuller (right) of the Chicago Fashion Group.
This picture was likely taken at Mount Mary College when Florence Eiseman was awarded Mount Mary's Gold Needle Award in 1980. -
Memo from Sister Aloyse Hessburg to Sister Mary Nora Barber, March 25, 1976
Memo from Sister Aloyse Hessburg, head of the fashion design program at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), to Sister Mary Nora Barber, president of Mount Mary College, with a list of matters related to the fashion design program in general and Sister Aloyse in particular that required input from Sister Mary Nora. This included information about a visit from Charles Kleibacker, updates on the designers who might visit Mount Mary as part of the fashion design program, and details on the new runway for the fashion show.
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Objectives for Mount Mary College clothing and textiles minor for the fashion design major
A list of objectives for the clothing and textiles minor for the fashion design major at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. -
Course descriptions as they appear in the Mount Mary College catalog,
1965-67 editionA list of Home Economics course descriptions from the 1965-76 catalog of Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This includes fashion design courses.
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Curriculum of the Home Economics Department 1965
An outline of the curriculum of the Home Economics Department at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with programs offered and, within those, majors and minors. -
Curriculum of the Home Economics Department 1954-1955
An outline of the curriculum of the Home Economics Department at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with divisions and, within those, majors and minors. -
Letter from Mary M. to Sister Aloyse Hessburg, December 14, 1967
A letter from Mary M. of Pekin, Illinois, to Sister Aloyse Hessburg of Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Mary says she'd read the Lynda Johnson wedding story (for which Sister Aloyse designed the mother-of-the-groom dress for Mrs. Frances Howard Robb) in the newspaper, is interested in fashion design, and would like to learn more, and asks for information about Mount Mary. -
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. -
Sister Aloyse Hessburg and two others after receiving the 2013 Gold Needle Award
Sister Aloyse Hessburg (center) received the Gold Needle Award from Mount Mary University in 2013. This image shows her with two others at a celebration as part of the award ceremony. The event likely took place on the Mount Mary campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.