Iowa’s fashion mavens and aspiring seamstresses have the opportunity to join a new members-only Collection Couture Club designed for people who admire style, but also want to study it, and get close enough to see the stitches. Christina Kastell, curator of history and anthropology at the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport, says the […]
Iowa’s pearl button industry featured in Smithsonian exhibit
Pearl buttons from Iowa are on display at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., part of an “America
