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Historic Garment District Museum opens in downtown Kansas City

KCUR
Published October 8, 2002 at 12:08 PM CDT
Former designer Ann Brownfield describing Kansas City fashions at the opening of the Historic Garment District Museum.
Former designer Ann Brownfield describing Kansas City fashions at the opening of the Historic Garment District Museum.

By the mid-1940s, Kansas City's largest industry behind livestock and grain...was garment-making. By Laura Spencer

Kansas City, MO – It's estimated at the height of Kansas City's garment district, between six and eight thousand people worked in factories and warehouses between 6th and 10th streets along Broadway - - making coats, suits, dresses and children's wear. A new museum chronicles the rise and fall of this industry in Kansas City. KCUR's Laura Spencer reports.

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