Agricultural Design: Creating Fashion from Fruit, Vegetables, and Flowers - 67 Matching Results

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[Virginia Winn in gown made of vegetable]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. This is Virginia Winn wearing a dress made of peas and carrots.
Date: December 1937
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Laverne Diggs]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Laverne Diggs is wearing a dress, boots, hat & muffs. Made out of red peppers & ?
Date: December 1938
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Laura Allen Mitchell]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Laura is repersenting Mercedes Garden Club. Her gown and turban are made out of pepper corn frosted with snow dust. Jewelry ornaments of red pepper. Shoes, Bag and turban of crushed corn. Evening 3rd prize.
Date: unknown
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mildred Griffin]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Costume Division.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Marie Greenwood]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Marie Greenwood is wearing a dress made out of grapefruit membrane. Stole: green tepejuage leaves. Floral Design: tiny green leaves, grapefruit seeds with a touch of glitter.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Pat Ross]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Ballerina lenght evening dress composed of gray ceniza leaves with trimming and acessories of ground bougainvillea petals. Jewelry: grapefruit seeds. 200 hours. $29.00
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Araminta Curtis]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Araminta is wearing a ballerina costume.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mrs. W.B. Harris]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Mrs. Harris is representing the Mission Study Club. Her costume is of father time. Robe was covered with sage and pittisporum leaves. Face of clock on sleeves was composed of turnips. The beard was made of pampas grass and the rawhide ha… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Alice Edrington]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Alice represented the McAllen business training school. Her dress was made of chopped corn and bell peppers.
Date: unknown
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Grace Dixon]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Grace is representing the Womens Study Club. Her long dress is made of dehydrated alfalfa stalks with trim of golden chrysanthemums.
Date: unknown
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Wilma Beth Schuelke]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Wilma is representing the Garden Club of Mission. Skirt was made of sliced corn cobs. The jacket and purse were of purple bougainvillea. Shoes were covered with ground corn and necklace was made of kumquats.
Date: unknown
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Contestant 25]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Dress is made out of ferns and flowers.
Date: unknown
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Dorothy Carlisk]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Representing the Harlingen garden club. The dress was made out of 1000 acalpha leaves. The purse is overlaid with ground alfalfa. The jerkin is made of rows of the scarlet bracts of the poinsetta plant.
Date: unknown
Creator: Edrington Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mrs. Martha Ann Knapp Linden]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Representing the Weslaco Future Homemakers, winner 3rd prize. Gown was made of white grapefruit membrane with fingertip veil of thinly sliced onion rigs 1 1/2 ton of fruit was used to make the dress. It took 1,454 hours and cost $15.96
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mildrena Shields]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Miss Mildrena Shields is representing the Beta Sigma Phi. Dress seems to be made of flowers.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jack Hornor
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Patsy Hankal]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Patsy Hankel is representing the fine arts of weslaco 1952. Street dress with jacket: lace fern Scarf: ornamental cane leaves Shoes and Bag of poinsetta petals cap and gloves of crushed corn meal National Vegetable, fruit and flower sho… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mrs. Marion Moyer]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Mrs. Moyer is representing the Rio Grande Valley Farm Federation of Mercedes. The new look creeps even into our style show. This dress is a replica of the Gay Gibson girl, a fashion of the "Roaring Twenties." This outfit is complete fr… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Jack Hornor
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Jannette Waters]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Jannette is representing the Literary Review Club.
Date: unknown
Creator: Yoder Studios
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mary Sue Hampton]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Mary Sue is wearing an evening gown with accesories that include: necklace, gloves, and handbag.
Date: unknown
Creator: Badger Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Ann Nichols]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Ann Nichols is representing the Girl Scouts of Weslaco.
Date: unknown
Creator: Badger Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Judy McManus Lackey]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. After winning 1st place in evening division. Gown was modeled at Neiman Marcus store in Dallas, TX.
Date: unknown
Creator: Andersen, Martha
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Polly Yewell]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Polly is representing the Mission Chamber of Commerce. Dress is made of grapefruit peel and bougainvillea blossoms. Cameo is of eggplant and chain of orange peel. Corsage is composed of bougainvillea, orange, lime, grapefruit and kumquat… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Edna Chandler]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Edna is representing the Weslaco Business and professional Womens Club. This winter suit and muff were made out of bachelor buttons, scart and corsage made of lettuce.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum

[Mrs. N.J. Lettunich]

Description: An Entry in Weslaco's annual "Birthday Party" fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Mrs. Lettunich is wearing a long coat, mittens, purse, and hat. Inner core is of bachelor buttons.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Weslaco Museum
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