Keywords: Teen fashion
Item 105473
Dior inspired prom dress, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Portland Media: cotton, metal
Item 102217
Silk dress with lace and tassel details, Bangor, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Bangor Media: Silk, lace, rayon
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: Bustle era fashions
A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring 1870s and 80s era bustle silhouettes.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4
"… Society Perhaps the collection’s nearest to a teen bobby sockster’s dress is a white collared blue and white cotton gingham with a full gathered…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 1 of 3
"The present assortment of teen or young women’s wear speaks of conservative style, rather than hippie and anti-establishment garb."
