Keywords: Active wear
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Site Pages
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Historic Clothing Collection - Active & Casual Wear
"Active & Casual Wear View the Active & Casual Wear Slide Show The growing and changing range of outdoor and indoor activities pursued by the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3
"… for college girls, women’s wear, and casual wear for every occasion and activity. Red and green check suit, ca."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Brewer, ca. 1838
"… the son of Anna and Solomon Raynes, is shown wearing a red velvet cap and checked plaid cotton apron in this drawing by his half-brother John…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Wrappers, Teagowns & At Home Dresses
"… home dresses, that obviously saw long years of wear for domestic duties, during pregnancies, and unlikely seen beyond the home, hearth and…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3
"… Post covers, featuring sporty young women and men wearing shirts. As yet, examples of practical, back pleat, "Gibson Girl" skirts and little in the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3
"… of Portland’s Hannah Robinson and her daughters wearing high waist dresses appeared on a large pitcher made for Robinson in Liverpool, England."
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3
"… norm for the working and active woman's everyday wear could be purchased ready-made. Immigrant labor was integral to this era of garment industry…"
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Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography
"Wearing such a garment to protect his clothes indicates that Soule worked at a trade or in a factory, perhaps in the local textile mill."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4
"… front of the room were so cold students had to wear multiple layers of clothing and sometimes even a hat."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden
"… The Maine folk are game folk, and the losers wear a smile. At Houlton, too, and Caribou, and the town that’s called Presque Isle."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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