412 results for: Retail and Department Stores
Long light blue dress, ca. 1960s-1970s
Stanley A. Hostek (1918-2014) was a prominent and influential tailor in Seattle. In addition to owning his own custom tailoring business, he taught tailoring at Edison Technical School (now Seattle Community College) and authored a series of instructional tailoring books in the 1970s. He made this dress for his wife Dorothy Hostek.
ID Number:2020.24.7
Date:Circa 1960-1970
Vest made of labels, ca. 1970s-1990s
Stanley A. Hostek (1918-2014) was a prominent and influential tailor in Seattle. In addition to owning his own custom tailoring business, he taught tailoring at Edison Technical School (now Seattle Community College) and authored a series of instructional tailoring books in the 1970s. He made this vest for his wife Dorothy Hostek out of labels from various sources, but predominantly…
ID Number:2020.24.9
Date:Circa 1970-1990
Tailor's scissors used by Stanley Hostek, ca. 1950s-1990s
Stanley A. Hostek (1918-2014) was a prominent and influential tailor in Seattle. In addition to owning his own custom tailoring business, he taught tailoring at Edison Technical School (now Seattle Community College) and authored a series of instructional tailoring books in the 1970s.
ID Number:2020.24.10
Date:Circa 1950-1990
Felt hat, "Year of the Rooster: Wake Up America!" by milliner Jean Hicks, 2017
Jean Hicks is a Seattle-based milliner, felt-maker and educator. Her hats are functional and often theatrical in style. She began work on this hat on January 20th, 2017, the day of President Trump’s Inauguration. It uses hand-felted Merino and Finn wool, is lined with up-cycled cashmere knit, and adorned with a felted comb. “Big and orange, it’s a ridiculous hat,”…
ID Number:2021.12.1
Date:2017
Felt hat, "Peahen of 45" by milliner Jean Hicks, 2017
Jean Hicks is a Seattle-based milliner, felt-maker and educator. Her hats are functional and often theatrical in style. This 2017 hat is meant to represent the First Lady and is a companion to Hicks’ “Year of the Rooster” hat from the same year. It intentionally combines a mix of disparate textiles, including hand-felted Finn wool ("the worst felt I have…
ID Number:2021.12.2
Date:2017
Committee to Save the Market pin, 1971
The Pike Place Market is one of the oldest continuously operated farmers' markets in the US. Local farmers, craftspeople and merchants have travelled to the market and set up shop for over one hundred years. In 1963, Seattle City Council proposed razing the Pike Place Market in hopes of obtaining federal urban renewal funds. Opponents to the demolition banded together…
ID Number:2021.20.5
Date:1971
Pin, "vote yes market," 1971
The Pike Place Market is one of the oldest continuously operated farmers' markets in the US. Local farmers, craftspeople and merchants have travelled to the market and set up shop for over one hundred years. In 1963, Seattle City Council proposed razing the Pike Place Market in hopes of obtaining federal urban renewal funds. Opponents to the demolition banded together…
ID Number:2021.20.6
Date:1971
Pike Place Public Market Crafts Permit pin, 1975-1976
The Pike Place Market is one of the oldest continuously operated farmers' markets in the United States. Local farmers, craftspeople and merchants have travelled to the market and set up shop for over one hundred years. Permits like this one were issued to vendors at the Market.
ID Number:2021.20.7
Date:1975-1976
Frederick & Nelson credit card, ca. 1980s
Frederick & Nelson, founded by Donald E. Frederick (1860-1937) and Nels B. Nelson (1854-1907) in 1891, was for many years Seattle's premier department store. They began by selling used furniture during the rebuilding of Seattle after the Great Fire of 1889, and expanded to include home delivery of goods, a tea room, and ready-to-wear men's and women's fashions. In 1992,…
ID Number:2021.20.RefCard
Date:Circa 1980
Leopard fur hat made by Farol Hyldahl, ca. 1960s
This leopard fur hat has a label which reads “Hand Made by Farol Hyldahl.” Farol Hyldahl, also known as Miss Farol was a Seattle milliner active in the 1950s and 1960s. Along with designing hats she also offered services to restyle and remodel existing hats.
ID Number:2021.38.1
Date:Circa 1960