Meet the Past: what would you ask Nell Donnelly Reed?
Click on "Add a new comment" to pose a question to Nell Donnelly Reed, a pioneer in the field of women’s ready-to-wear clothing in the 1920s and 1930s who was largely responsible for making Kansas City one of the largest ready-to-wear clothing manufacturing centers in the world. If your question is chosen, Library Director Crosby Kemper III will ask it on your behalf.
Changes in "ready-to-wear"
In today's fashion climate is the term or catagory "ready-to-wear" still accurate and do you think that women' fashions are accessible to the "average" woman?