Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Following the death of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Victoria's husband, in 1861, Queen Victoria withdrew from public life and wore a black and white ensemble colloquially known as widow's weeds, which she continued to wear until her death in 1901. Under government pressure she came back into public view in 1870.
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.
Columbia Pictures (CST Entertainment Imaging, Inc.) [440] The Man Who Came to Dinner: 1942: 1988: Turner Entertainment [441] The Man with Nine Lives: 1940: 1994: Columbia Pictures (CST Entertainment Imaging, Inc.) [442] Manhattan Melodrama: 1934: 1990: Turner Entertainment [443] Mark of the Vampire: 1935: 1993: Turner Entertainment [444] [445 ...
The five-bedroom Victorian mansion features a master suite complete with en-suite bathroom and dressing room, while the ground floor features a spacious combined kitchen and dining area that opens ...
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 hats were covered with elaborate creations of silk flowers, ribbons, and ...
Tom Mix, an actor in Westerns, wearing a white hat. In American films of the Western genre between the 1920s and the 1940s, white hats were often worn by heroes and black hats by villains to symbolize the contrast in good versus evil. [1] The 1903 short film The Great Train Robbery was the first to apply this convention. [2]
Osborn's most famous work is Nameless and Friendless (1857), which has been called "The most ingenious of all Victorian widow pictures." [12] It depicts a recently bereaved woman attempting to make a living as an artist by offering a picture to a dealer, while two "swells" at the left ogle her. The creation of this piece was a product of its time.