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Historical Items

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Item 54280

Paris fashion, 1932

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1932 Location: Paris Media: Ink, pencil on paper, fabric

Item 54274

Fall fashion, Paris, 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Location: Paris Media: Ink, pencil on paper, fabric

Item 102230

Nile green dress, Paris, ca. 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1926 Location: Scarborough; Paris Media: silk, sequin, tulle, lace
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Online Exhibits

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The Mainspring of Fashion

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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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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Cosmopolitan stylings of Mildred and Madeleine Burrage

Born in Portland, sisters Mildred Giddings Burrage (1890-1983) and Madeleine Burrage (1891-1976) were renowned artists and world travelers. Mildred's experiences studying painting in Paris and Italy, and the sisters' trips to Mexico and Guatemala inspired their artwork and shared passions for cosmopolitan and stylish attire. Housed at Maine Historical Society, The Burrage Papers include selections of original advertising drawings called "line sheets" from Parisian fashion houses dating from 1928 to 1936. Images of Madeleine's gemstone jewelry and Mildred's artwork accompany intimate family photographs of the sisters.

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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1900-1930

"… emerged after Sergei Diagilev's Asian-inspired costumed Ballets Russes burst on the Paris scene in 1909, and later toured the United States."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 3 of 3

"… Historical Society Nile green dress, Paris, ca. 1926Maine Historical Society Perhaps a green all over beaded mid-calf length dress is the…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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My Maine Stories

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Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.