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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 ...
Anne of Denmark wears mourning for her son, Henry, Prince of Wales, 1612. She wears a black wired cap and black lace. An Englishwoman (traditionally called Dorothy Cary, Later Viscountess Rochford) wears an embroidered linen jacket with ribbon ties and embroidered petticoat under a black dress with hanging sleeves lined in gray. Her reticella ...
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.
The Japanese term for mourning dress is mofuku (喪服), referring to either primarily black Western-style formal wear or to black kimono and traditional clothing worn at funerals and Buddhist memorial services. Other colors, particularly reds and bright shades, are considered inappropriate for mourning dress.
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 ...
Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0810963175; Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0300095805; Black, J. Anderson and Madge Garland: A History of Fashion, Morrow, 1975. ISBN 0688028934
After Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died of typhoid on 14 December 1861, she wore mourning dress for more than forty years until her own death in 1901. She fully mourned for three years and dressed her whole court the same way. The queen's conduct strengthened traditions of public mourning during the Victorian era.
Overview of fashion from The New Student's Reference Work, 1914. Summary of women's fashion silhouet changes, 1794–1887. The following is a chronological list of articles covering the history of Western fashion—the story of the changing fashions in clothing in countries under influence of the Western world—from the 5th century to the present.