Maine Memory Network

Silk panel skirt with embroidery, China, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Media: silk, cotton
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Crinolette hoop skirt, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Media: linen, wire
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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.

Northern Threads: Adaptive reuse

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring up-cycled and reused historic fabrics.

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"The center back shoulder panels form a V above four buttons, which attach the skirt to the bodice above the concealed closure."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… edges, and on the skirt's long straight front panel, are suggestive of decorative details seen in some Wiener Werkstätte design and other Viennese…"