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VALERIE KIENZLE’S interest in fashion started with shoes. Members of her husband’s family, including his grandfather and great-great-great-grandfather, worked for the International Shoe Company, founded in St. Louis in 1921 and headquartered inside today’s City Museum building.

Kienzle, a Nashville native turned local historian, has written five books about St. Louis and Missouri

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