The History of Mourning Dress and Attire in the West
WEBMourning dress for the wealthy became increasingly fashionably styled, with black coats and breeches for men and mantua dresses for women, in black and half-mourning mauve. The use of mourning dress, also for reasons of social ambition, next spread slowly to the growing middle classes.
Victorian ELEGANCE: 19th Century Mourning Dress
WEBThe 19th century was a period marked by elaborate mourning rituals and traditions, including the distinctive mourning dress. This attire served as a visual representation of grief and respect, following strict etiquette and symbolizing the mourning process.
Mid-Late Victorian Mourning Dress - LancasterHistory
WEBOct 6, 2021 · Though it remained part of a person’s wardrobe for many years prior, the Victorian era likely holds the most fame because Queen Victoria wore mourning dress for forty years after the loss of her husband, Prince Albert. To the Victorians, black dress could symbolize mourning.
Dressing for Death: Victorian Mourning Dress | An Historian ...
WEBOct 20, 2023 · What is Mourning Dress? Mourning dress is what we wear after a death occurs. People often wear specific colours to mark the death of a loved one, with black being predominant in western society.
Mourning Fashion and Etiquette in the Victorian Era
WEBSep 16, 2018 · Girl in a mourning dress holding a framed photograph of her father, who presumably died during the American Civil War. Mourning etiquette was not so rigid in the early years of the Victorian era, but after Queen Victoria’s own Annus horribilis in 1861, things changed.
Glamour and grieving: How the Victorians dressed for death
WEBOct 21, 2014 · “Elaborate mourning dress came to be seen as putting more attention on the mourner and a showy display, rather than focusing on the loss of the deceased.”
Mourning glory: Two centuries of funeral dress - BBC
WEBNov 3, 2014 · Mourning glory: Two centuries of funeral dress (Corbis) As a new exhibition explores a century of mourning attire, Lindsay Baker discovers a strong connection between grief – and glamour.
Death Becomes Her | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBThe thematic exhibition is organized chronologically and features mourning dress from 1815 to 1915, primarily from The Costume Institute's collection, including mourning gowns worn by Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra.
Mourning dress | British | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBMourning dress. This dress was once worn by Queen Victoria (1819-1901) of the United Kingdom, as documented in an 1894 photograph of the Queen holding her great-grandson, Edward VIII (1894-1972).
The Art and Culture of Victorian Mourning
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Reviews of Exhibitions. Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014-2015. The Art of Mourning exhibition at the Museum of Morbid Anatomy, 2014-2015.