Maine Memory Network

Ida May Lane's jacket, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Media: Velvet, fur, fabric

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Zouave-inspired bolero jacket, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: wool, cotton, glass
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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.

Northern Threads: Silhouettes in Sequence, ca. 1780-1889

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring a timeline of silhouettes from about 1775 through 1889.

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 1 of 4

"Day dress with jacket, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society Just how attractive and fashionable rayon could be is seen in the comfortable easy elegance…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1800-1830

"… at the back; a Longfellow family spencer or short jacket; a mid-calf length brownish green wadded cloak, pink silk lined with pink silk frills…"

militakwat
by Jason Brown

A story about Jason Brown's orchestral debut, militakwat

A Splash of Water
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

Reminisce of a lifetime on Little Sebago Lake