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Frankie Welch designed this scarf specifically for her friend Betty Ford to give out as White House gifts. She incorporated many personal touches, including Ford’s favorite flowers, petunias; hues that matched her favorite turtleneck shirts—pink,…

Photograph of the two friends in commemoration of the new scarf design

Scarf designed by Frankie Welch for the Carters while he was governor of Georgia

One of a line of Frankie Welch-designed dresses made for the Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign

Specially made fabric designed by Frankie Welch for the Republican National Convention. Welch retailed the fabric by the yard so that Republican women could make their own garments.

Frankie Welch in her shop with two of her 1968 designs: a dress made from the Republican National Convention fabric and the Hubert H. Humphrey H-line dress

List of people showing Frankie Welch's designs, left to right:
Jocelyn Monroney (daughter-in-law of Senator A. S. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma) wearing an H-Line dress;
Libby Cater (wife of Douglass Cater, special assistant to President Lyndon B.…

The people pictured are gathered at the campaign
headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the announcement of Hubert H. Humphrey’s candidacy for president. All of the women besides Frankie Welch and Mildred Pepper are wearing Humphrey H-line dresses,…

Frankie Welch's first scarf design. Designed at the request of Virginia Rusk, wife of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who asked Welch to design something “truly American” for the White House and State Department to use as gifts.

Ribbon cutting ceremony for Frankie Welch's dress shop Frankie Welch of Virginia, located in Alexandria, Virginia