Maine Memory Network

Through shot, Ambajejus, ca. 1900, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Ambajejus Boom House Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: T1 R9 WELS Media: Wood

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Victoria Mansion gold silk dress, Portland, ca. 1840

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Portland Media: silk, cotton, brass

Northern Threads: The rise and fall of the gigot sleeve

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring the balloon-like gigot sleeve of the 1830s.

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.

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… with the challenge of devising concealed hook fastening closures, such as that found in the back of this dress."