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WHITNEYMANNEY "Printcess" Poppy Zipper Clutch

Color
$27.00

Description

Designer Whitney Manney, a Kansas City Missouri native, graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 with a BFA in Fiber. With a desire to create art in a wearable format, Manney creates garments and textile designs under her independent label WHITNEYMANNEY.

About the poppy:

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a noted Canadian physician before the war, served with Canada’s First Brigade Artillery as a surgeon at a field hospital in Belgium. As he worked within sight of poppies blooming across old battlefields and fresh graves, he crafted a poignant testament against war and wasted lives that arguably became the Great War’s most famous poem, “In Flanders Fields.” McCrae himself died from disease in 1918, the war’s last year.

American Moina Michael is credited for giving rise to the use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance. Working as a YMCA Overseas War secretary in New York, she read that John McCrae had died and vowed to always wear a red poppy of Flanders Fields in remembrance.

She made the first sales of the Flanders Fields Memorial Poppy in November 1918. From that point forward, it was her mission to make the poppy the national memorial symbol and inspire the world to return to peace after the “war to end all wars.”

Dimensions:


Large: 12 x 8 inches
Small: 8.5 x 6 inches

Materials:


Woven poly laminated nylon with poly zipper and metal pull

All items are shipped from the Museum Store in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Items will be fulfilled within 3 days of order placement. Standard shipping times will vary depending on the shipping method chosen at check-out. 

Merchandise may be returned within 14 days of purchase for a refund in the form of original payment.

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All purchases are tax-free and benefit America's official World War I Museum and Memorial