Keywords: French fashion
Item 110535
Empire style fashion doll, ca. 1801
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1801
Media: wood, cotton, fur
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Item 13125
French House Solarium, Houlton, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Houlton Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
The mainspring of fashion is the process whereby members of one class imitate the styles of another, who in turn are driven to ever new expedients of fashionable change.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Early Republic era Fashion dolls
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring Early Repulic-era (ca.1780-1820) fashion dolls.
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3
"This supplanted heretofore dominant French male silk and velvet fashions, suitable only for languid court life."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century
"… details and trimmings, and probably inspired by French fashion prints, her delicate bloused-bodice peach and cream leafy print voile dress is…"
