Keywords: Women costumes
Item 28714
Women in bathing costume, 1915
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1915 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 103921
Business and professional women in costume, Portland, 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (NFBPWC) held their seventh annual convention in Portland during July 12 to July 18, 1925. Over 2,000 working women from around the country visited the city.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
"In the United States, costume is commonly associated with clothing worn during theatrical performances, masquerade balls, or during Halloween."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Themed Image Galleries
"… part of the Maine Historical Society historic costume and dress collection consists of middle class women's wear, primarily dresses."
Story
My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey
Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
