Keywords: dress up
Item 111433
Drop waist cocktail dress, Portland, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: silk, rayon, glass beads
Item 111511
Floral maxi-dress, Kennebunk, ca. 1972
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1972 Media: cotton, plastic
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.
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
Life on a Tidal River - Dress Up Day
"… of the favorite activities this year has been "Dress Up Day". Both Bill Cook of the Bangor Public Library and Dana Lippitt of the Bangor Museum and…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2
"… early twentieth century clothing (2016), and Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In: Adornment and Identity in Maine (2011)."
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
Story
Decontie and Brown's venture in high fashion design
by Decontie and Brown
Penobscot haute couture designs from Bangor
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Daily Life in 1820
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to explore and analyze primary source documents from the years before, during, and immediately after Maine became the 23rd state in the Union. Through close looking at documents, objects, and art from Maine during and around 1820, students will ask questions and draw informed conclusions about life at the time of statehood.
