[Barbara J. Bordins]
Date: December 1947
Creator: unknown
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. Barbara is wearing a dress made of citrus peel.
Contributing Partner: Weslaco Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21375/
[Bettie Gene Frizzell Buchanan]
Date: December 1945
Creator: unknown
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. Bettie is wearing a top made of grapefruit peel and a skirt made of grape fruit peel with stripes of eggplant.
Contributing Partner: Weslaco Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21373/
[Bettie Gene Frizzell Buchanan]
Date: December 1945
Creator: unknown
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. Bettie is wearing a dress made of grapefruit peel with stripes of eggplant.
Contributing Partner: Weslaco Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21372/
[Catherine Farina]
Date: December 1940
Creator: Edrington Studio
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. Catherine Farina is wearing a dress made of corn husks and poinsetta leaves.
Contributing Partner: Weslaco Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21371/