Keywords: Designer collars
Item 100525
Portrait of a dog, Portland, 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1890 Location: Portland Media: Carte de visite
Item 23502
Penobscot cape collar, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1870 Media: Beads
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
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 4 of 4
"… high waisted, featuring a dramatic wide spreading collar, and a statement single button front closure."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900
"Both feature high face encircling collars make room for voluminous sleeve trends. Also allowing for fuller sleeves, is a London made cream light wool…"
Story
My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey
Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes
