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A Victorian woman wearing a widow's cap. Illustration from The Strand Magazine (1890) A Victorian mourning cap was identified by its black colour or tone (depending on the level of mourning). The more recent the loss the simpler the design. The shape of the cap depended on the age of the widow but the most common was peaked at the front. [3]
The color black was associated with the period of mourning for a widow. In Victorian times, widows were believed to be a threat to the social order because as widowed women with unrestrained sexual prowess, they would allegedly tempt men. If a widow were to wear a different color, it would be considered an inappropriate gesture.
A picture hat or Gainsborough hat is an elaborate woman's hat with a wide brim. [1] It has been suggested that the name may be derived from the way the broad brim frames the face to create a "picture". [2] This is a very broad category of hat; some versions may be similar to the halo or cartwheel hat. This style featured in virtually every ...
The Small Diamond Crown of Queen Victoria is a miniature imperial and state crown made at the request of Queen Victoria in 1870 to wear over her widow's cap following the death of her husband, Prince Albert. It was perhaps the crown most associated with the queen and is one of the Crown Jewels on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower ...
The popular cartoon characters The Smurfs wear white Phrygian caps. Picture hat: Also known as a Gainsborough hat and garden hat, this is an elaborate women's design with a wide brim. Pilgrim's hat: A pilgrim's hat, cockel hat or traveller's hat is a wide brim hat used to keep off the sun. It is highly associated with pilgrims on the Way of St ...
1859 fashion plate of both men's and women's daywear, with seabathing in background. He wears the new leisure fashion, the sack coat.. 1850s fashion in Western and Western-influenced clothing is characterized by an increase in the width of women's skirts supported by crinolines or hoops, the mass production of sewing machines, and the beginnings of dress reform.
The silhouette changed once again as the Victorian era drew to a close. The shape was essentially an inverted triangle, with a wide-brimmed hat on top, a full upper body with puffed sleeves, no bustle, and a skirt that narrowed at the ankles [11] (the hobble skirt was a fad shortly after the end of the Victorian era). The enormous wide-brimmed ...
The Dogs of War, political cartoon by John Tenniel engraved by Joseph Swain, 17 June 1876, for Punch magazine, just at the outbreak of the Serbo-Turkish War. Joseph Swain (29 February 1820 in Oxford – 25 February 1909 in London) was an English wood-engraver. He is best known from his wood-engravings in Punch magazine of cartoons by Sir John ...