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The purpose of this wearable art piece was created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment (granting women in the U.S. the constitutional right to vote) and to draw attention to the long (approximately 70 year) struggle for this reform. In 1848, the first women's rights convention was convened at Seneca Falls, N.Y. This garment was also designed to draw attention to and inform people about that earlier defining moment. 100 different persons, including men, signed their names to the "Declaration of Sentiments" which demanded a change for the inequality which existedwhilst men had public roles and had a voice in the laws under which they lived, women were confined to the home with no such voice. The "Declaration of Sentiments," presented by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at the New York Women's Rights Convention, began the struggle to alter the society which granted social and political equality to women. The 100 activists' and reformers, 68 women and 32 men, signed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" to participate in this meaningful movement (Timeline of the Suffrage Movement, 2015) (Figure 1). Since then, many people labored to secure the right for women to have a voice in the framing of the laws under which she lives (Women's Suffrage, 2020).