Keywords: 1920s clothing
Item 105679
Helen Little Hamm's drop waist dress, Kittery, ca. 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1926 Location: Kittery Media: silk, velvet, cotton, glass, metal
Item 105680
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Clitheroe Media: cotton, Bakelite
Exhibit
Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Adaptive reuse
A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring up-cycled and reused historic fabrics.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 2 of 3
"… Historical Society Clothing of the early 1920s is characteristically loose with waists at hip level, and longish or just above ankle-length…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1900-1930
"… trimming and long tasseled silk neck ties; and a 1920s short straight fur lined edge-to-edge coat of contemporary multicolored Chinese brocade."
Story
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine
