Mourning dress

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Examples

• Examples of mid-Victorian dress for men, women, and children
• Mourning dress worn by Queen Victoria, 1894-95
• British evening dress, c. 1861
• Advertisement for mourning attire, 1887
• British mourning dress, 1902-04
• Jet and Dressed in Black — The Victorian Period
• Evening Dress worn by Queen Alexandra, 1902

Exhibitions

• Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire (October 21, 2014-February 1, 2015) — A review of an exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bibliography

DeLorme, Maureen. Mourning Art and Jewelry. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2004.

Morley, John. Death, Heaven, and the Victorians. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971.

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Created 26 December 2015