Keywords: Wedding costumes
Item 14460
Grace Ware, Peter Mailhotte wedding photo, Bucksport, 1915
Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society Date: 1915-11-27 Location: Bucksport Media: Photographic print
Item 105303
Mary Lewis' wedding day cape, Cousins Island, ca. 1773
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1773
Location: Yarmouth
Media: wool, silk
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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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"Arcy Cary Bradford's gigot sleeve wedding dress, ca. 1829 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Gigot sleeve is the French…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 2 of 3
"Aside from wedding dresses, a bodice with a black satin vest-effect, labeled "Miss L. K. Stanley, 511½ Congress Street, Portland, Maine," features a…"
