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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 92607, member: 57&quot;]Not about your hat -- merely an &quot;aside&quot; with information about the owners/proprietors of the clothing store.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b> &quot;Worn by an area suffragist</b></font></p><p>One piece that stands out to Marcketti is the story behind the woman who owned a brown velvet dress from 1905. Rose Frankel Rosenfield, who wore the dress, fought for women’s voting rights by providing considerable financial support for the unsuccessful 1916 referendum. Rosenfield’s family also owned the Frankel Clothing Store in Des Moines, which eventually was bought by the Younkers Corp.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2013/01/31/textiles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2013/01/31/textiles" rel="nofollow">http://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2013/01/31/textiles</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The link is to the clothing and textile museum at Iowa State University.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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