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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4
"1870-1890 Haskell Silk Mill, Westbrook, ca. 1874Walker Memorial Library After the Civil War, sewing machines reached the professional…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 4 of 4
"1870-1890 Watered silk ensemble, ca. 1888Maine Historical Society Women wore bustle supports of various shapes and sizes."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse
"Fabric Adaptive Reuse View the Fabric Adaptive Reuse Slide Show In the past, when silk textiles were so expensive and new dresses required…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Active & Casual Wear
"Active & Casual Wear View the Active & Casual Wear Slide Show The growing and changing range of outdoor and indoor activities pursued by the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 2 of 3
"1830-1850 Muslin dress, ca. 1830Maine Historical Society Victorian-era cotton dress, ca."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 3 of 3
"1830-1850 Figured silk dress, ca. 1845Maine Historical Society Silk dresses in subdued colors of plain and woven patterns predominate the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 2 of 4
"1950-1960 Ida M. Lane speckeled blue dress, ca. 1955Maine Historical Society Denim jeans and more casual dress, the uniform of the emergent…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 3 of 4
"1950-1960 "New Look" dress with belt, ca. 1955Maine Historical Society Additionally, there are two particularly striking and unmistakably…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4
"1950-1960 Blue and white check dress, ca. 1955Maine Historical Society Introduced in 1947, Dior's "New Look" featured neatly rounded…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3
"1960-1970 Patchwork mini skirt, ca. 1970Maine Historical Society Although Crimplene and other firm knit fabrics were was extensively used for…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3
"1960-1970 The 1960s tend to be recalled as the age of the mini skirt, which it was. It was also the era of the "baby boom" generation, and the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Fashions Far & Away
"Fashions Far & Away View the Fashions Far & Away Slide Show Imported garments and fabrics are an integral part of American fashion, and of the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Site Overview
"Site Overview Madam de St. Felix ball dress, ca. 1820Maine Historical Society This collection portal consists of introduction narratives…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms
"Organizational Uniforms View the Organizational Uniform Slide Show A somewhat large collection of Armed Services uniforms within the Maine…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Organizational Uniforms
"Organizational Uniforms View the Organizational Uniform Slide Show A somewhat large collection of Armed Services uniforms within the Maine…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3
"1940-1950 Trumpet sleeve dress, ca. 1946Maine Historical Society Once the war was over, pocket and pleats appeared again as fabric…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3
"1940-1950 Summer weight suit, ca. 1948Maine Historical Society Limited French fashion influence during the war had the effect of encouraging…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 1 of 3
"1940-1950 Square shouldered dress with pockets, ca. 1943Maine Historical Society Fashion more or less stalled during the war years."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 2 of 4
"1850-1870 Cameo button detail X Helen Bancroft Hay's cameo-button striped dress, Charlestown, MA., ca."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4
"1850-1870 Detachable sleeve crinoline dress, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society One of the collection’s finest and widest crinolines is a boat…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 1 of 4
"1850-1870 "Ordinary" dress, ca. 1845Maine Historical Society Examples of 'ordinary' dresses from the 1850s within the MHS collection include…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 4 of 4
"1850-1870 Full crinoline dress with fringe, ca. 1859Maine Historical Society In the late 1850s early 1860s, crinolines reached their largest…"
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"Arcy Cary Bradford's gigot sleeve wedding dress, ca. 1829 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description Gigot sleeve is the French…"
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"White cotton dress with gigot sleeves, Portland, ca. 1828 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description By the mid-1820s…"