Posted on 10/21/2014 10:46:02 AM PDT by C19fan
All-black attire hasnt always been reserved for coffee shop poets and champagne-sipping fashionistas. Up until the turn of the 20th century, it was almost exclusively a sign of mourning: women publicly showing respect for the loss of a loved one.
But, somewhere between the fury of the industrial revolution and womens liberation, the tradition itself died out, leaving only a brief implication that lingers in graveyards and funeral services with fleeting significance.
Now, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is revisiting the trend, taking visitors back to black with the debut of the Anna Wintour Costume Institutes first fall exhibition in seven years. Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, which opens today (Tuesday), explores the custom of mourning dress from 1815 to 1915.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Hopefully nothing.
not like their husband is gonna find out...
Gee.... do you also carry a scythe & brandish it at the words “till death do you part”?
;^)
While you clothing was all black you still had to have them cut in different styles. You needed morning dress and afternoon dress, tea dress, calling dress, dinner dress, evening dress (after the first six months you were allowed small quiet entertainments) riding dress, traveling dress. You needed several of each because it just would Not Do to be caught wearing the same dress in close sequence.
Let's not even talk about half morning and quarter morning.
or you were NORMAL and owned 1 house dress and 1 church dress.
You might wear a black morning knot.
You’re such a romantic.
;^)
AKA as an Obama button to me.
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