Keywords: clothes press
Item 148279
Two beachgoers playing leapfrog, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1930 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Glass plate negative
Item 40417
Street scene, Monument Square, Portland, ca. 1924
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1924 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
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.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Fashion in Bangor, 1865
"… 1864, "manufacturers made a clean sweep to kill pressing over so as to sell new stock and established a fashion as above to take off the rim entire…"
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's Agricultural Pursuits
"… cents per yard, flannels 17-25 cents per yard and pressed cloth for 25 cents per yard. (25 cents is the equivalent to approximately $5.13 today)."
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
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine
