Dress & Bowdoinham Sons of Temperance Regalia (collar)
Ca. 1850
Silk satin
Maine Historical Society; dress gift of Margaret Hay, 1992

Men and women in Temperance societies wore ceremonial regalia at their meetings to help signify their allegiance to the cause. Women, like the the young women pictured in "Daughters of Temperance", wore sashes or collars over their simple silk "everyday" dresses