Keywords: 1950s clothing
Item 105734
Marion P. Johnson's theater coat, Portland, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Portland; New York Media: rayon, wool
Item 105716
Powder blue suit with caplet, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Media: wool, rayon, metal
Exhibit
Fashion for the People: Maine's Graphic Tees
From their humble beginnings as undergarments to today's fashion runways, t-shirts have evolved into universally worn wardrobe staples. Original graphic t-shirts, graphic t-shirt quilts, and photographs trace the 102-year history of the garment, demonstrating how, through the act of wearing graphic tees, people own a part of history relating to politics, social justice, economics, and commemorative events in Maine.
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4
"Parallel with these developments in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the custom of girls and young women dressing or wearing hair and make-up like…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3
"… MHS collection may be late 1940s possibly early 1950s interpretations of the new "pencil" skirt suit."
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
Story
Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.
