Keywords: 1920s fashions
Item 111378
Cocktail-length wedding gown, Portland, ca. 1921
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1921
Location: Portland
Media: Silk, glass, silver
This record contains 12 images.
Item 105689
Bergdorf Goodman cocktail dress, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1925
Location: New York
Media: cotton, silk, glass, metal
This record contains 11 images.
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 - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4
"By the end of the 1920s, rayon had been improved and developed to make a wide range of pleasing and modest priced fabrics."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 2 of 4
"… of the American fashion industry in the 1920s, found opportunities in fashion fields such as designing, advertising, and journalism."
