Keywords: high waist
Item 105481
Empire waist silk dress, Portland, ca. 1810
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1810 Location: Portland Media: silk
Item 105480
Harriet Coffin Thom's sheer overdress, ca. 1815
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1815 Location: Gloucester; Londonderry Media: silk, silver
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 - 1800-1830 - Page 1 of 2
"The waistline is not quite so high in the other two crepes. Their long loose sleeves are gathered or bunched into floppy puffs at the top, hinting of…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 2 of 4
"In another example, bands of sophisticated braid and fringe running from the shoulders of the bodice to center waist contrive a pelerine effect on a…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
