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Biography
Fashion Historian and owner, Bonnie
Hansen is an avid collector of antique clothing.
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She has
worked with the motion picture industry as a costumed extra (see
special page in
menu at left), and has
provided wardrobe to notable films like:
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Steven Spielberg’s, Road
to Perdition, starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman
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Robert Altman’s, Kansas
City
- Ang Lee’s Civil War
drama, Ride With The Devil
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Bonnie
was the Executive Producer for an award-winning PBS documentary
about Kansas City horsewoman Loula Long Combs and her father,
lumber baron R. A. Long.
She has also worked with the
Titanic exhibition, and she costumed the “ghosts” at the KC Rail
Experience at Kansas City Union Station.
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Bonnie speaks on a variety of topics
related to fashion history. Universities, historical societies and
senior centers are among her most frequent audiences, and she often
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Partial List of Clients:
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Brauer Museum of Art at
Valparaiso University
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City of Lenexa Kansas –
“Centennial”
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Friend of the Kansas City
Museum
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“Gatsby Days,” Excelsior
Springs MO
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Grintner House Museum,
Kansas City, Kansas
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Kansas City Rail Experience
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Shawnee Town Museum –
Shawnee, Kansas
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Union Station Kansas City,
Inc.
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Vaile Mansion Victorian
Society
- Victorian Trading
Company
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Colleges:
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Longview Community College,
Lee's Summit, Missouri
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Kansas City Kansas
Community College
- Stephens College –
Columbia, Missouri
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Historical Societies:
Libraries:
Senior Centers:
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Lakeview Village – Lenexa,
Kansas
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Delmar Gardens – Lenexa,
Kansas
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Manor Care – Overland Park,
Kansas
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Freedom Pointe – Overland
Park, Kansas
- Sunrise Assisted
Living – Leawood, Kansas
- The Sweetlife Grand
Court – Overland Park, Kansas
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Accomplishments:
- Kansas City Public
Television Series
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III
costuming and set dressing
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Academic Credentials
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Bachelor of Arts – Eastern University – St. Davids, PA
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Additional studies – University of Valencia, Valencia –
Spain
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Honors –
Testimonials:
Thank you for your wonderful presentation
of First Ladies at the mansion. Your enthusiastic and charming way of
presenting historical information is fascinating.
Georgia Schmitling
Longview Community College
What a super show! Many of my students’
projects were inspired by your 1910 lace and tulle wedding dress.
Monica McMurry
Chair, Design and Fashion Dept.
Stephens College
Loula certainly seems to have chosen you to
tell her story and keep her memory alive, and you have done so as
thoroughly and lovingly as if you were a member of her family!
B. Beavers
Philadelphia, PA
Simply the best! Your program inspired
many phone calls to me.
C. J. Sullivan
Outreach Services Coordinator
Johnson County Library
Thank you so much for the wonderful
presentation. Everyone really enjoyed it, and they’re still talking
about those underpinnings! You made our day very special.
Carol Nickerson
University Park Endontics
I awoke this morning still aglow with the
feeling of success that can be realized only by someone who has chosen
the perfect program for a very important occasion.
Deana McClure
President
Ladies Reading Circle of Olathe
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