Maine Memory Network

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

"The alternate fashion, compatible with women's increasing participation in the workforce and outdoor activities, favored a more naturally curved…"

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

"By this time, more women now worked outside the home. Positions such as store clerks, telephonists, office clerks, secretaries, and typists were…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 2 of 3

"Historically women's legs were always covered, and out of the common gaze. As skirt lengths rose, neutral, light gray and flesh colored stockings…"

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

"… the same styling, chosen by two very different women, from two different walks of life, demonstrate the democratic, equalizing nature of modern…"

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

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

Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse

"… and new dresses required many yards of fabric, women were familiar with the custom of either themselves or their dressmakers altering and updating…"

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

"… wider, shorter skirts and peplum jackets worn by women in uniform or engaged in war work exerted influence on civilian fashion."

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

"… encompasses clothing for people who identified as women, with a smaller representation of menswear and childrenswear."

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 - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"By 1800 women's formal, stiff wide skirted cumbersome gowns had disappeared. In their stead was something totally different: simple high waisted…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 2 of 3

"… sold at Felix Dress Shop, specializing in "women's wearing apparel," which operated in Portland at 16 Forest Ave for just over forty years."

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

"1888Maine Historical Society Women wore bustle supports of various shapes and sizes. Some were separate items such as half cage crinolines, tied on…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 1 of 4

"For many women, a silk dress was an investment, a best dress for Sunday, or for special occasions. Looked after, often stored away as they moved past…"

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

"… dresses in Claude Monet’s 1866-67 painting titled Women in the Garden. Another white organdie, a ball dress, with short frill sleeves, boat neck…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"… 19th century collection, to one dominated by women's wear from the 1870s to the 1930s. Although, despite this focus, the featured mid twentieth…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1870 to 1900

"… to wear with large skirts or bustles dominated women's outerwear in the earlier part of this period."

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 3 of 4

"Of course many women still wore older styles, one of which is a very wearable lightweight gray/green rayon crepe, with small yellow printed flowers…"

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

"… in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the custom of girls and young women dressing or wearing hair and make-up like their mothers, faded away."

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

"As a result, women could walk unencumbered by the layers of heavy petticoats, with their legs free under the cage."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Women still relied on dressmakers for the most fashionable garments and made simpler versions at home."

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

"Women with even the most modest pocket books could afford dainty silk-like rayon underwear and nightdresses, as seen in Sears catalogues."

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

"… tie dyed T-shirts, message T-shirts, pants for women, cheap flowing Indian print skirts and caftans, exotic ethnic garments collected on trips to…"

Historic Clothing Collection - White cotton dress with gigot sleeves, Portland, ca. 1828 - Page 1 of 2

"White work (white embroidery on white fabric) is reminiscent of christening gowns or ceremonial items."