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

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   The bereavement attires were displayed to demonstrate the evolution in fashion culture through clothing styles and accessories. This can be observed from the relevant changes in fabrics, from mourning crape to corded silks, and the use of color with shades of gray and mauve. [5] The color black was associated with the period of mourning for a ...

3. Plus-size clothing - Wikipedia

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   Mary Duffy's Big Beauties was the first model agency to work with hundreds of new plus-size clothing lines and advertisers. For two decades, this plus-size category produced the largest per annum percentage increases in ready-to-wear retailing. Max Mara started Marina Rinaldi, one of the first high-end clothing lines, for plus-size women in ...

4. Avenue (store) - Wikipedia

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   Avenue Stores LLC was a specialty retailer in the United States offering plus-size clothing to women who wear larger-size clothing. The company serves a target audience of women aged between 25 and 55 years of age, wearing apparel of size 14 or larger, and also sells shoes and accessories. [2]

5. The Widows of Culloden - Wikipedia

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   The Widows of Culloden collection and show, especially the Kate Moss illusion, have been extensively analysed, especially as an exploration of gothic literature in fashion. Widows is frequently discussed with McQueen's first Scottish-themed collection, Highland Rape (Autumn/Winter 1995), whose runway show was highly debated in the fashion world.

6. Widow's cap - Wikipedia

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   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] Widows' caps were either lisse, tulle or tarlatan, shape depending mainly on the age. Young widows wore mainly the Mary Stuart shape, but all widows' caps had long streamers. Their prices were ...

7. Mourning - Wikipedia

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   Widows and other women in mourning wore distinctive black caps and veils, generally in a conservative version of any current fashion. In areas of Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Albania, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain, widows wear black for the rest of their lives. The immediate family members of the deceased wear black for an ...