Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Themed Image Galleries

"1930 Organizational Uniforms Image GalleryMaine Historical Society The greater part of the Maine Historical Society historic costume and dress…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3

"… Historical Society includes World War II military uniforms, as yet it holds little in the way of civilian war-era fashions."

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 2 of 3

"In response, MHS broadened our collection vocabulary to include historic clothing, costume, and dress."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"While at present there are no examples of such uniforms in the collection, Ruth True's afternoon suit demonstrates the influence."

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 1 of 3

"… and upper-middle class womenswear; military uniforms; special occasion and bridal. Very few examples of work-a-day or everyday wear were…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 3 of 3

"It included garments, military uniforms and accessories, organized into themed vignettes. The in-person physical exhibition of Northern Threads Part…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 2 of 4

"… Society Denim jeans and more casual dress, the uniform of the emergent youth culture, became synonymous with rebellion against established culture…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"The acquisition of the Westbrook College Collection by Maine Historical Society in 1993 shifted the Society's historic clothing holdings from a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"In 2018, support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America grant program facilitated item-level cataloguing…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"… use, making items such as underwear and Civil War uniforms. Machine sewing became feasible due to the Northhampton, Massachusetts Nonotuck…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860

"A well worn men's black wool "country cape," not restricted by fashion and the survivor of long wear, features a large practical hood."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"As yet, examples of practical, back pleat, "Gibson Girl" skirts and little in the way of smart shirt blouses are found in the MHS collection."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"Even in such far flung places as Maine (then thinly inhabited), the financially comfortable genteel members of its small and scattered communities…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, MA-30-18-0288-18."

Historic Clothing Collection - Site Overview

"By design, this site is interpretive in nature and not a comprehensive digital display of all items within the MHS historic dress collection."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 4 of 4

"… the beginning of the bustle era with descriptions of evening dresses flat and plain in the front with skirts gathered in a bunch at the back."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3

"The name "rayon" was adopted in the mid-1920s. In 1930, the Androscoggin Mill in Lewiston was equipped with new looms to handle rayon, and became one…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Plum skirt suit with cape, ca. 1945 - Page 1 of 3

"The three-piece suit includes a skirt, blazer, and cape. The skirt has three wide stitched pleats in the front and back and fastens with a side…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… it appears that stylish women everywhere in Maine, from those in the blueberry territory of downeast Cherryfield, to southern Maine paper and silk…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"In the 1860s and 1870s small thread mills, such as the Haskell Silk Company of Westbrook proliferated, producing the special twist thread in high…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"… waist over the petticoat), and with round gowns, in which case they were visible in the inverted V skirt front openings."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4

"Other daytime ensembles in the collection include a plain yellow-beige, slim faile rayon mid-calf dress with brown polka-dot spotted fabric trimming…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 2 of 3

"… and readily available, yet they are scarcely in evidence in this section of the current collection."

Historic Clothing Collection - Arcy Cary Bradford's gigot sleeve wedding dress, ca. 1829 - Page 1 of 2

"This particular dress represents the trend in its early years, before the sleeve size reached its peak."