Keywords: tassels
Item 105512
Hannah P. Adams' embroidered dress, Belfast, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1880
Location: Belfast
Media: wool, silk, cotton
This record contains 12 images.
Item 102217
Silk dress with lace and tassel details, Bangor, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1920
Location: Bangor
Media: Silk, lace, rayon
This record contains 13 images.
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
Northern Threads: Outerwear, Militia & Cadet uniforms
A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring 19th century outerwear, bonnets, militia and cadet uniforms.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860
"… garments such as a black and brown watered silk tassel trimmed cape with a similarly trimmed shoulder cape; a wide dark brown wadded coat, with an…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3
"1920-1930 Satin dress with tassels, ca. 1920Maine Historical Society The tubular line silhouette returned after the First World War."
