Sober clothes, usually black but sometimes white in summer, with the option of a black armband, and absence from social life other than for ceremonies, constitute dignified modern mourning.

It seems to Miss Manners that sensible mourning, in modern times, would be black clothes during the time that you do not want to have people urging you to get over it and behave as before, and ...

A Gentle Reader would like to honor Grandmother, who is dying of cancer, by going into formal mourning. What does this entail?

Victorian mourning jewelry used portraits or hair in brooches, rings, lockets and bracelets. The idea of mourning clothes and mementoes is coming back now as – well, what do you expect?

From Black Mourning Clothes to Bags of Blood, the Royal Family Has a Handful of Rules to Follow While on Royal Tours King Charles and Queen Camilla are on the back end of their nine-day visit to ...

The mourning period is a nebulous and tricky thing to navigate in modern life. The boyfriend of a very close friend died in an accident the summer after our freshman year of college.

Over the decades, the impractically long mourning wardrobe traditions went out of style, but Victoria’s influence is still present in modern royal mourning periods, from the austere colors to ...

Tracy Mourning By Alexandra Phanor-Faury Tracy Mourning, wife of basketball star Alonzo Mourning, may be a basketball wife, but the way in which she approaches fashion is far from your typical ...

The new 9/11 memorial is, writes Otto, the community’s Victorian-era-like willingness to remind itself of the pain their loss inspires – and the outrage – distinctly antiquated ideas given modern ...

Sober clothes, usually black but sometimes white in summer, with the option of a black armband, and absence from social life other than for ceremonies, constitute dignified modern mourning.