Keywords: Tussah silk
Item 102211
Margaret A. McGuire's wedding dress, Portland, 1909
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1909
Location: Portland
Media: silk
This record contains 7 images.
Item 105684
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1925
Media: silk, mother of pearl, metal
This record contains 14 images.
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.
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 3 of 3
"McGuire's July 5, 1909 exquisite tussah silk wedding dress, made by the Misses Macdonough of Portland, with neatly fitted pin tucked hips, tucked…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 1 of 4
"In 1859, Miss Leslies Behaviour Book recommended senshaw for travel dresses. The collection’s 1850s dress of gold silk damask with an elongated leafy…"
