Keywords: Dressmakers
Item 111464
Martha S. Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Cherryfield Media: cabinet card
Item 105672
Two-piece dress and blouse, Cherryfield, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Cherryfield Media: wool, rayon, cotton, glass
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.
Exhibit
Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century
"… a sophisticated social life, and afford fine dressmaking to go with it. The family moved from Ontario, Canada, to Lewiston in 1885."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse
"… with the custom of either themselves or their dressmakers altering and updating existing garments to keep up with constantly changing fashion."
