Maine Memory Network

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

"… the collection, featuring white embroidery, bands of insertion lace, and other different types of net and lace."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3

"Labeled, "Harriman & Co. Portland Maine," Adela Adams' circa 1900 two piece has a velvet trimmed jacket styled with mild sleeve expansion, and the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 1 of 2

"… The fashions of 1800-1805 are represented at Maine Historical Society by a small, but important group of slender gowns made of simple white…"

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

"In the 1920s, consumption of rayon, the first chemically made fiber, steadily increased. Initially discovered in the late 1880s, rayon is the product…"

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

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

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

"1907Maine Historical Society Made of sturdy linen, a straight skirted day dress features areas of bold crochet lace embellishing the skirt, the wide…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 - Page 1 of 2

"… when her husband, John Holmes, served as one of Maine's first US senators after Statehood. Sally and her daughter, Sarah Ann, spent "the season" in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"Quilted petticoats of different fabrics and degrees of quilting complexity were worn under short gowns (so called because they extended only a short…"

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

"… pleated crinoline skirt would not be out of place among the cloud of white dresses in Claude Monet’s 1866-67 painting titled Women in the Garden…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 2 of 4

"Jessie Franklin Turner was one of the many women who, from the beginnings of the American fashion industry in the 1920s, found opportunities in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"… formal dress stimulated growth of a new branch of the clothing industry, one that specialized in the design and manufacture of clothes for the…"

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

"… with heavily draped and layered skirts, all of which would have required some sort of specially shaped and structured bustle support."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 2 of 4

"These buttons are not rare or of especially high quality, but are reflective of the era's fashion for cameo jewelry."

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

"A cotton dress’s chances of survival were reduced by use for daily wear, dyeing for mourning, and cutting down for children."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4

"The cage crinoline made of flexible steel appeared about 1856. As a result, women could walk unencumbered by the layers of heavy petticoats, with…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3

"One is a combination of crochet and machine lace medallions, and the second a darned filet-type cotton lace."

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

"The boyish, shapeless, twenties style disappeared, replaced by a more feminine silhouette and longer skirts. By the end of the 1920s, rayon had been…"

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

"Sometimes a group of women clubbed together to make the purchase and share. On the one hand, machine sewing mitigating the endless hours women spent…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3

"… panel; a lined, orange floral nylon with areas of transparent burn out; and a straight white jacquard pique dress printed with a design of blobby…"

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

"A lightweight rayon of fine green and red lines (checks) giving a neutral colored appearance has a smooth seamed fitted hip covering jacket, with hip…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3

"Near the end of her career in the 1960s and 1970s, Chanel earned acclaim with her beautiful braid trimmed jacket suits. Metallic lurex gown, ca."

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

"Howard Burr (formerly Cécile de Wasilowska of Poland), grandmother of Cecile P. Carver of Scarborough."

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

"The 1950s were not only the years of the "New Look," and rebellion, they were the years when new fabrics made of new synthetic fibers began to appear."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 3 of 4

"… color scheme, a two-piece ensemble is comprised of a gored, very flared stiff paper nylon skirt of black and white checks, overprinted with a black…"