Naomie Rudelson shares experiences as a retailing executive whose career grew in the Dallas fashion scene. While her first fashion experiences were working at Gus Mayer in New Orleans and then working at Dalton’s while attending Louisiana State University, shortly after graduation she moved to Dallas to complete a junior executive training program through the department store Sanger Brothers in 1956. She worked at the Highland Park and Preston Center branches of the store, rising to the level of buyer before becoming the first female vice president of a Federated Department Store in 1974. After hitting her “glass ceiling” there in 1978, Rudelson left what was then Sanger-Harris in 1978, transitioning to executive positions around the country. Rudelson describes the Dallas fashion industry – retailers, manufacturers, the Dallas Apparel Mart – as well as her work with Fashion Group International in the early 1970s to move a collection of historic and designer clothing to North Texas State University (later the University of North Texas, Texas Fashion Collection).