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Item 100305

Russian silk shawl, Kupavno, Russia, 1804

Russian silk shawl, Kupavno, Russia, 1804

Contributed by: Tate House Museum Date: 1804 Location: Kupavno; Portland Media: Silk

Item 105505

Two piece cape and shawl, ca. 1855

Two piece cape and shawl, ca. 1855

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Media: silk, cotton

Item 76614

Linn Woolen Mill, 1908

Linn Woolen Mill, 1908

Contributed by: Hartland Historical Society Date: 1908 Location: Hartland Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Parasol fashion doll, ca. 1794

Northern Threads: Early Republic era Fashion dolls

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring Early Repulic-era (ca.1780-1820) fashion dolls.

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One-piece pink faille dress, York, ca. 1835

The Mainspring of Fashion

The mainspring of fashion is the process whereby members of one class imitate the styles of another, who in turn are driven to ever new expedients of fashionable change.

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Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

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Watered silk cape, ca. 1865

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860

"… Wide crinolines restricted outerwear to wraps, shawls, capes, and easy fitting garments such as a black and brown watered silk tassel trimmed cape…"

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Clara Cary, Rinaldo Wiggin, John Martin, Bangor, 1844

John Martin: Expert Observer - Clara Cary, Rinaldo Wiggin, John Martin, Bangor, 1844

"… a blue & red spotted Delane with a small plaided shawl blue white & Red a wide stripe of blue a narrow stripe of Red and the ground work white with…"

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Lucia Wadsworth's "assembly dress," Portland, ca. 1799

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

"… the under-dress did not survive, the ensemble's shawl, bonnet and veil are part of the collections."