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Keywords: Panel skirt

Historical Items

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Item 105822

Silk panel skirt with embroidery, China, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Media: silk, cotton

Item 110680

Crinolette hoop skirt, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Media: linen, wire

Item 105513

Silk faille and cut velvet bustle dress, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Media: silk, cotton, velvet

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

Northern Threads: Adaptive reuse

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring up-cycled and reused historic fabrics.

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Northern Threads: Bustle era fashions

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring 1870s and 80s era bustle silhouettes.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"The center back shoulder panels form a V above four buttons, which attach the skirt to the bodice above the concealed closure."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… edges, and on the skirt's long straight front panel, are suggestive of decorative details seen in some Wiener Werkstätte design and other Viennese…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3

"… a square neck and ruched, button trimmed front panel; a lined, orange floral nylon with areas of transparent burn out; and a straight white…"