Keywords: Women's suit
Item 105698
Three piece rayon suit, Portland, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Portland Media: rayon, metal, celluloid, mother of pearl
Item 111708
Susan Kincaid's Pendelton suit, Portland, ca. 1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Brunswick; Portland Media: wool, rayon
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
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.
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Historic Clothing Collection - Minimalist wool skirt suit, ca. 1943 - Page 1 of 3
"Minimalist wool skirt suit, ca. 1943 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description View additional information about this item on…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Plum skirt suit with cape, ca. 1945 - Page 1 of 3
"Plum skirt suit with cape, ca. 1945 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description View additional information about this item on…"
Story
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