Keywords: 1940s fashion
Item 105716
Powder blue suit with caplet, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Media: wool, rayon, metal
Item 105714
Square shouldered cape and suit ensemble, ca. 1943
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1943 Media: wool, rayon, metal
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
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In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s
"… could you ever live through the circumstances of fashion like many did during the 1940s? Fashion More examples of fashion during the '40's"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3
"Two suits in the MHS collection may be late 1940s possibly early 1950s interpretations of the new "pencil" skirt suit."
