Keywords: Gowns
Item 105708
Evening gown with sequined bodice, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1935
Media: cotton, viscose, plastic, glass beads, rayon, metal
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Item 17264
Gown worn by Lillian Nordica, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Nordica Memorial Association Date: circa 1880 Location: Farmington Media: Silk and velvet
Exhibit
Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."
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.
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Historic Clothing Collection - Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 - Page 1 of 2
"Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Sally Holmes of Alfred wore this evening gown in…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3
"… of quilting complexity were worn under short gowns (so called because they extended only a short distance below the waist over the petticoat), and…"
Story
Decontie and Brown's venture in high fashion design
by Decontie and Brown
Penobscot haute couture designs from Bangor
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
