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  2. Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire - Wikipedia

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    Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire was an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that ran from October 21, 2014, to February 1, 2015. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The exhibition featured mourning attire from 1815 to 1915, primarily from the collection of the Met's Anna Wintour Costume Center [ 4 ] and organized by curator Harold Koda ...

  3. Widow's cap - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Victorian fashion - Wikipedia

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    Victoria's five daughters (Alice, Helena, Beatrice, Victoria and Louise), photographed wearing mourning black beneath a bust of their late father, Prince Albert (1862) Mourning Dress, 1894–95. In Britain, black is the colour traditionally associated with mourning for the dead.

  5. 1795–1820 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Mourning dresses were worn to show the mourning of a loved one. They were high-necked and long-sleeved, covering throat and wrists, generally plain and black, and devoid of decoration. Gowns (now restricted to formal occasions) were often extravagantly trimmed and decorated with lace, ribbons, and netting.

  6. Dante (Alexander McQueen collection) - Wikipedia

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    The selected colours for this collection were black (as in many cultures is a symbol of death and mourning) white or bone (symbol of purity) and soft purple or lilac (the colour of Victorian half-mourning). [5] Prints of Victorian classical patterns and McCulin's pictures were also used in some of the garments.

  7. 1650–1700 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    The Infanta Margarita of Spain is shown here wearing a mourning dress of unrelieved black with long sleeves, cloak and hood. She wears her hair parted to one side and severely bound in braids, 1666. Two English ladies wear dresses with short sleeves over chemise sleeves gathered into three puffs. The long bodice front with curving bands of ...

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