Palais du Costume

http://exhibits.slpl.lib.mo.us/lpe/data/LPE240025337.asp?thread=240029402

-exhibit presented a series of of tableaux illustrating the history of dress throughout the ages
-one of the tableau featured modern clothing and furniture from 1904
-The William Barr Dry Goods Company provided the costumes
-costumes valued over one hundred thousand dollars
-architect Louis. C Spiering designed the building housing the Palais du Costume
-admission the exhibit was 25 cents