Keywords: Wedding gown
Item 105330
Ida Hussey's "handmade" wedding dress, Guilford, ca. 1898
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1898
Location: Guilford
Media: silk, cotton, metal
This record contains 12 images.
Item 105709
Bessie Rodis' wedding gown, Portland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1938
Location: Portland; Smyrna; Izmir
Media: rayon, wood
This record contains 13 images.
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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 - Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 - Page 1 of 2
"Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Sally Holmes of Alfred wore this evening gown in…"
