Keywords: Women's Clothing Styles
Item 111207
Abigail Longfellow Stephenson's black satin slippers, Gorham, ca. 1800
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1800
Location: Gorham
Media: silk, linen, leather
This record contains 5 images.
Item 105702
Designer couture robe, Portland, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1936
Location: Portland; New York
Media: wool, silk
This record contains 9 images.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
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.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Children's Wear
"Children's Wear View the Children's Clothing Slide Show For the second half of the 19th century children’s fashions mirrored adult styles."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century
"Factions formed, iconic styles took hold, and silhouettes continuously changed throughout the mid twentieth century."
Story
From Chinese Laundress to Mother of the Year
by Dr. Andrea Louie
Toy Len Goon's granddaughter recounts her immigration to the US and becoming Mother of the Year.
Story
Harold's Garage, Rome Hollow, Maine
by Mimi C
Story about Harold Hawes, owner of Harold's garage and self-styled auctioneer in Rome Hollow, Maine
