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
This record contains 11 images.
Item 105727
Nylon dress with red accents, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1955
Media: nylon, leather, plastic
This record contains 10 images.
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.