Keywords: Nineteenth century clothing
Item 105480
Harriet Coffin Thom's sheer overdress, ca. 1815
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1815 Location: Gloucester; Londonderry Media: silk, silver
Item 105477
Lucia Wadsworth's "assembly dress," Portland, ca. 1799
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1799 Location: Portland Media: cotton, linen
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 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.
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Nineteenth Century
"Early Nineteenth Century Leavitt family coat-dress, Eastport, ca. 1830Maine Historical Society Some fashion changes are distinct and occur…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century
"Mid to Late Nineteenth Century Until the development of fashion publications, people relied on letters from travelling friends, or returning…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
