Maine Memory Network

Crinolette hoop skirt, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Media: linen, wire

Linn Woolen Mill, 1908

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

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.

Northern Threads: Adaptive reuse

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring up-cycled and reused historic fabrics.

Historic Clothing Collection - Poppy print maxi skirt, ca. 1975 - Page 1 of 3

"Poppy print maxi skirt, ca. 1975 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description View additional information about this item on the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Plum skirt suit with cape, ca. 1945 - Page 1 of 3

"Plum skirt suit with cape, ca. 1945 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description View additional information about this item on…"

From Chinese Laundress to Mother of the Year
by Dr. Andrea Louie

Toy Len Goon's granddaughter recounts her immigration to the US and becoming Mother of the Year.