Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Mourning Clothing

"Mourning Clothing View the Mourning Clothing Slide Show With the growth of the middle class, the custom of wearing black during periods of…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"The mid twentieth century (1950-1980) clothing at Maine Historical Society is but a small fraction of the Society's overall garment holdings, which…"

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

"Cloth for civilian clothing was limited because production was prioritized for military purposes. Bates Mill in Lewiston produced vast quantities of…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… of the eighteenth century English taste for clothes suited to an active country life, fine quality English dark wool broadcloth, and skilled…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"A new breed of young designers burst on the scene producing clothing to suit the new burgeoning youth-oriented market."

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1800-1830

"Outerwear 1800-1830 Examples of this period's outer garments include: a full length 1800-1810 unlined slim silk twill coat with a flat fold over…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900

"… women's outerwear in the earlier part of this period. Examples of mantles (jackets) designed to accomodate a bustle include a pale green damask…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 1 of 3

"… this decade. It was more of a mix and match period retaining much of the 1960s with a superimposition of aspects of other periods, from the…"

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

"… Society Many fashionable silk dresses from this period deteriorate beyond saving because the linings supporting the delicate fabrics fell apart."

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

"… and shaped by stiff horsehair petticoats, this period's wide skirts became known as crinolines. The name derives from the French word crin meaning…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 2 of 4

"… into a polonaise (looped bustle effect.) Some period dresses featured a front ‘apron’ style overdress and a double skirt at the back."

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

"… Society Very popular during the 1910-1920 period, there is a selection of variously styled white muslin 'lingerie' dresses in the collection…"

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

"A dress from this period made of a weightier ribbed gray and pale blue shot silk features cuffed pagoda sleeves and is notable, first for its very…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 1 of 3

"… of day fashions straddling the 1830 to 1835 period. The natural waist level belt encircling the coat and long pelerine (cape) tails emphasizes the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… dairying, food preparation, spinning, weaving, clothes-making, laundry, and childcare. Women also traded with nearby households, and wives assumed…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"… photographs depict individuals in the clothing of their trade or profession holding related tools or objects."

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"My family can’t afford to pay for clothes for me on their own. Solomon's Store Poster by Tanner McCarthy X Solomon’s Store is famous for their…"

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… Pennsylvania flour, West India sugar, and English cloth and hardware, returning with shingles, clapboards, hogsheads and barrel staves, white oak…"

Blue Hill Historical Society

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Camden-Rockport Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Site Navigation Tips

"Many of these were intended as periods, and we have transcribed them as such. Likewise, what sometimes look like periods are commas."

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"… them pantyhose) as well as many other articles of clothing due to the need for the materials in the war."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"… tea, molasses, rum, hardware, and bolts of cloth. The Bob Cat Inn and Reed Livery Stables stood across the street from the stores of Charles…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"One historian called the period from 1812 to 1912 the "Waltz Century." The speed, rhythm, and form of the waltz as well as its place in the social…"