Keywords: Lace dresses
Item 49074
Woman's white lace collar, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Cotton
Item 49075
Longfellow crochet lace collar, Portland, ca. 1820
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Location: Portland Media: Linen
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Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In
Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.
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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 - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4
"Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description After the Civil War…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2
"On the white lace summer dress, a shoulder-wide lace panel covers and hangs over the entire bodice front."
