Keywords: 1950s fashion
Item 105716
Powder blue suit with caplet, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1950
Media: wool, rayon, metal
This record contains 14 images.
Item 105699
Rayon crepe ensemble, Portland, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1955
Media: rayon, metal
This record contains 13 images.
Exhibit
Fashion for the People: Maine's Graphic Tees
From their humble beginnings as undergarments to today's fashion runways, t-shirts have evolved into universally worn wardrobe staples. Original graphic t-shirts, graphic t-shirt quilts, and photographs trace the 102-year history of the garment, demonstrating how, through the act of wearing graphic tees, people own a part of history relating to politics, social justice, economics, and commemorative events in Maine.
Exhibit
Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes
Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes showcases historic recipes, dating from the 18th century to the 1950s, like sweet treats, traditional favorites, promotional printings, medicinal concoctions, curious libations, and recipes that have fallen out of favor.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3
"… MHS collection may be late 1940s possibly early 1950s interpretations of the new "pencil" skirt suit."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4
"… some degree, and is most recognizable in the mid 1950s teenage girl's, almost ubiquitous, full skirts and dresses worn with bobby socks and penny…"
Story
Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
