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Keywords: 1920s fashion

Historical Items

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Item 102217

Silk dress with lace and tassel details, Bangor, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Bangor Media: Silk, lace, rayon
This record contains 13 images.

Item 111681

Fashion taxidermy fur accessory, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Media: fur
This record contains 6 images.

Item 111378

Cocktail-length wedding gown, Portland, ca. 1921

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1921 Location: Portland Media: Silk, glass, silver
This record contains 12 images.

Online Exhibits

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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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Northern Threads: Adaptive reuse

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

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Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art

Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4

"By the end of the 1920s, rayon had been improved and developed to make a wide range of pleasing and modest priced fabrics."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 2 of 4

"… of the American fashion industry in the 1920s, found opportunities in fashion fields such as designing, advertising, and journalism."

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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1900-1930

"A circa 1920 black silk velvet kimono-style evening coat is an example of the new unstructured fashions—different from western, fitted, tailored…"