Maine Memory Network

The Tricora corset, Bangor, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

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Child’s summer dress, ca. 1835

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1835 Media: cotton

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.

Northern Threads: Bustle era fashions

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring 1870s and 80s era bustle silhouettes.

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"… bloused or pouched bodices, with smooth firmly corseted back thrust hips ("S" bend style), and trained skirts with a flare around the hemline."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 2 of 3

"Corseting and clever dressmaking helped shape or conceal natural contours. For example, Helen Little Hamm's tan chiffon dress, with an uneven…"

Tapestry, Seine Twine and Burlesque
by Barbara Burns

My work as a tapestry artist and dancer in Maine.