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Claimed photograph of the ghost, taken by Captain Hubert C. Provand. First published in Country Life, 1936. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is a ghost that reportedly haunts Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England.
Relationships between octoroons and elite Creoles of New Orleans were prohibited, but young men commonly had strong attractions to octoroon women because of their beauty. Because of different social statuses, Creole men and octoroon women were prohibited from marrying. Octoroon balls were used as a way for rich Creoles to obtain an octoroon ...
Halloween costumes can also generate controversy through the overt sexualization of many women's costumes [47] – despite a surprisingly long history of it [48] [49] [50] – even those intended for young girls. While costumes of various occupations like student, police officer, academia, clergy, or nursing do exist for men, they are often at ...
Visitors of the National House Inn bed and breakfast in Marshall, Michigan have reported seeing a Lady in Red on the front staircase. [7]In Chicago's Drake Hotel, a jealous woman wearing a blood-red dress took her life after jumping from the 10th floor (or the roof, as accounts vary).
An Arapaho buckskin ghost shirt, ca 1890 Ghost shirts are shirts, or other clothing items, worn by members of the Ghost Dance religion, and thought to be imbued with spiritual powers. The religion was founded by Wovoka (Jack Wilson), a Northern Paiute Native American, in the late 19th century and quickly spread throughout the Indigenous peoples ...
Richard King's painting Love Letters (painted circa 1990) is said to be haunted by Samantha Houston, a four-year-old girl who fell to her death in the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas where the painting hangs. As a result, the expression of the girl in the painting is said to change [19] whenever one looks away. Guests have also reported ...
Informal wear or undress, also called business wear, corporate/office wear, tenue de ville or dress clothes, is a Western dress code for clothing defined by a business suit for men, and cocktail dress or pant suit for women. On the scale of formality, it is considered less formal than semi-formal wear but more formal than casual wear.
Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5; Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09580-5; Black, J. Anderson and Madge Garland: A History of Fashion, Morrow, 1975. ISBN 0-688-02893-4