Keywords: Floral design
Item 111511
Floral maxi-dress, Kennebunk, ca. 1972
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1972 Media: cotton, plastic
Item 105513
Silk faille and cut velvet bustle dress, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Media: silk, cotton, velvet
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
Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In
Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3
"… button trimmed front panel; a lined, orange floral nylon with areas of transparent burn out; and a straight white jacquard pique dress printed with…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3
"… and white leafy serpentine stripes, and scattered floral sprays. The gown features a sack back with pleats falling from the shoulders into a train…"
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.
