Keywords: Silk shawl
Item 100305
Russian silk shawl, Kupavno, Russia, 1804
Contributed by: Tate House Museum Date: 1804 Location: Kupavno; Portland Media: Silk
Item 105503
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: silk, cotton
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
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.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860
"… Historical Society Two piece cape and shawl, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society Grapevine embroided cape, Portland, ca."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 1 of 2
"Unfortunately, the pieces are too fragile at present to mount on a mannequin for display. Empire waist silk dress, Portland, ca."
