Английская Википедия:Frankie Welch

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Frankie Welch (March 29, 1924 – September 2, 2021) was a fashion designer from Rome, Georgia. She is primarily known for designing scarves for prominent political figures, which she sold from her boutique in Alexandria, Virginia. After a career as a home economics teacher which spanned nearly two decades, Welch began working as a fashion consultant. Developing a clientele, she moved into designing accessories and then dresses. Welch was the designer of a dress worn by First Lady Betty Ford, which is now on display in the Smithsonian's First Ladies' Hall in the National Museum of American History. She also designed dresses on display at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

Early life

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1944 wedding photo

Mary Frances Barnett was born in 1924 in Rome, Georgia, to Eugenia (née Morton) and James Wyatt Barnett.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn As a high school student, Barnett enjoyed fashion and consulted her friends on style.Шаблон:Sfn Her father worked for the telephone companyШаблон:Sfn and her family had deep roots in Georgia. She claimed to be 1/32 Cherokee;[1] however, she is non-Native American.[2] Her great-grandfather built Georgia's first lumber mill and her grandfather served in the Confederate Army.Шаблон:Sfn

Barnett graduated from Rome High School in 1941Шаблон:Sfn and then enrolled at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.Шаблон:Sfn At the completion of her junior year, on June 3, 1944, Barnett married her childhood sweetheart, William Calvin Welch, in Rome, Georgia.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn After graduating from Furman, with her bachelor's degree, Welch continued her studies at the University of Georgia,Шаблон:Sfn before following her husband, who had been discharged from the military, to Wisconsin.Шаблон:Sfn There she studied design at the University of Wisconsin.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Career

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First Lady Betty Ford's pink brocade gown by Frankie Welch, 1974

Welch began her career in Madison, Wisconsin, teaching elementary schoolШаблон:Sfn and the couple had their first daughter, Peggy.Шаблон:Sfn When Bill was transferred to work with the CIA in 1952, the family moved to Washington, D. C. in 1953Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and Welch continued teaching. She worked as a sewing instructor at the Washington and Lee High School in Arlington, VirginiaШаблон:Sfn and had her second daughter, Genie.Шаблон:Sfn In 1960, she designed a versatile dress known as "The Frankie", as an instructional aid to help her students visualize waistline treatments.Шаблон:Sfn That same year, Ingenue, a teen magazine named her the "Outstanding Home Economics Teacher of the Nation" and awarded her with a trip to visit the fashion houses of Paris and Rome.Шаблон:Sfn In September 1963,Шаблон:Sfn she opened a shop at 305 Cameron Street in Alexandria, Virginia, operating an official guest house on the upper floors and her clothing shop on the street level.Шаблон:Sfn The house was noted in guidebooks as a tourist attraction, because George Washington and his men dined thereШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and it was the first bank in Virginia.Шаблон:Sfn By 1964, she was marketing "The Frankie" nationwide. The adaptable design came in various fabrics and hem-lengths, and could be worn in multiple ways, depending on how the waist ties were joined.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Meeting Washington's elite women at various social functions, Welch began consulting with them on fashion. Developing a clientele, she soon switched to design.Шаблон:Sfn In 1967, as part of an initiative for the Native American education service, she designed a scarf featuring the Cherokee syllabary.Шаблон:Sfn Welch donated one dollar from the purchase of each scarf to the higher education fund of the Eastern Cherokee.Шаблон:Sfn The scarf caught the attention of First Lady Lady Bird Johnson.Шаблон:Sfn Johnson asked Welch to create a scarf which would promote her "Discover America" campaign. The scarf became a featured item at the first fashion show ever held at the White House.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1968, she designed a scarf with a daisy pattern for the Republican National Convention and was then asked to design a scarf for Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign featuring his HH logo. When Richard Nixon won the presidency, Welch was commissioned to design a scarf with his slogan "Forward Together" as a commemoration of his Inaugural.Шаблон:Sfn

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Official Portrait of First Lady Betty Ford in a Frankie Welch gown December 24, 1975

After the Nixon resignation in 1974, First Lady Betty Ford wore a Welch design to greet the press.Шаблон:Sfn Her official photograph was taken in a Welch design made of green silk, which Ford had brought back from China. That same year, she published Indian Jewelry: How to Wear, Buy and Treasure America's First Fashion Pieces,Шаблон:Sfn which was full of tips on how to determine the quality of jewelry and gave information about various types of materials used in jewelry design. She also designed a collection of contemporary bracelets, earrings and necklaces for her store.Шаблон:Sfn Her husband died in 1975.Шаблон:Sfn In 1976, when Ford selected which gown was to be presented to the First Lady's Hall, she selected a Welch dress in a princess style, with a Chinese-style high collar. The dress was first worn in 1975 for the Shah of Iran's state dinner and later worn by the First Lady to a dinner for King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Queen Sofía in 1976. Welch designed Ford's official scarf, which she gave to visiting dignitaries, on a floral and polkadot background with the First Lady's signature imprinted.Шаблон:Sfn

Among Welch's corporate clients were McDonald's and Time-Life. She designed scarfs and tote bags for Auburn University, the University of Georgia and West Point and organizations like the Arkansas Democrats Association, the American Medical Association, the Congressional Wives' Club, the Princeton Club, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Historical Society, as well as St Paul's Cathedral in London, The Indianapolis 500, and the Watergate Hotel.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She designed a dress and a scarf with a peanut motif for Jimmy Carter's gubernatorial race;Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn a scarf for the United States Bicentennial featuring the original 13 colonies; and a series of scarves depicting the official state flowers of all fifty states.Шаблон:Sfn She later designed scarves with the peanut featured for Carter's presidential run;Шаблон:Sfn scarves, ties, tote bags and umbrellas, for Ronald Reagan's inaugural festivitiesШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and a scarf for President Bill Clinton in 1993.Шаблон:Sfn

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Welch (left), Betty Ford (second from left), and Sidney Dillon Ripley (right) pose in 1976 with a mannequin dressed in a gown Welch designed for Ford that Ford is donating to the Smithsonian Institution

Welch expanded her business, opening satellite stores in the D. C. area in the 1970s and consulted on interior design. She relocated to an apartment in the Watergate complex, but kept theШаблон:Sfn Alexandria dress shop until 1982, when she sold it to her daughter Genie Welch so that she could focus more on designing. In 1990, the shop closedШаблон:Sfn and Welch continued to design and teach courses on design for several years.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She retired to Charlottesville, Virginia.Шаблон:Sfn In 2016, a dress designed for First Lady Betty Ford, part of the collection of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, toured the country in the Native Fashion Now exhibit sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in Manhattan and the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. The pink brocade dress was designed for the 1974 White House Christmas Party.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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