VINTAGE FASHIONS Park will benefit from styles of yesterday

The vintage clothing is from the collection of one of the speakers.
WARREN -- A show featuring women's fashions from the past will benefit a park honoring the contributions of women.
"A Walk Through Time" is set for May 13 at the Hippodrome, 150 High St., with wine and hors d'oeuvres beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the program following at 6:15 p.m.
Trumbull County residents Lana Eisenbraun and Judy Sheridan will be guest speakers and will present fashions from the past followed by a style show featuring today's fashions. Richard's of Warren is sponsoring the event.
The cost is $15 per person, and proceeds will help support the Women's Park in Trumbull County. The park was so named to honor Ohio women and particularly those of Trumbull County and the surrounding area.
The speakers
Eisenbraun of Warren, Upton Association curator, has worked at the Kent State Fashion Museum and owns a textile conservation business. She specializes in 18th-century clothing and customs and has studied in England and Germany. All of the vintage clothing for the event is from her collection.
Sheridan is a collector of historic textiles and clothing, which she uses to decorate her historic home in North Bloomfield.
The Harriet Taylor Upton Association paid for the park with donations from the Trumbull 100 and Second National Bank. Inc. Inscribed bricks also helped finance the project.
Upton was a suffragist who worked with Susan B. Anthony. She was named treasurer of the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1892, and in 1898 became the first woman elected to the Warren school board.
Upton moved the National American Woman Suffrage Association to Warren in 1903 and the house, now named in her honor and maintained by the Upton Association, became the national association's temporary center.
The Upton House is the third-oldest house on Mahoning Avenue and was named a National Historic Landmark in 1993.
Checks for the event should be made payable to Richard's and sent by Thursday to Richard's, 158 N. Park Ave., Warren 44481.