Keywords: collar
Item 49074
Woman's white lace collar, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Cotton
Item 49073
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: Cotton
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
Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3
"… collar and spreading cape-like detachable collar of crochet and tape lace, and a tan flowered cream dress with a chiffon yoke, shoulder-wide mock…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3
"… with corsets) and shirt blouses, often with stiff collars and soft floppy bows at the neck. This second alternate mode is familiar from the "Gibson…"
Story
Wampum Belts
by Donald Soctomah
My great grandfather was a wampum keeper
Story
My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey
Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes
