There’s no doubt that Taylor Swift loves a theme. Her new album The Tortured Poets Department embraces a moody, vintage aesthetic that, of course, drops hints about her emotional state. At one ...

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In conjunction with the Halloween and Dia de los Muertos holidays, the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka has been displaying an exhibit of Victorian/Edwardian mourning dresses. These two eras ran ...

A mother makes a button from the hair of her dead infant. She sews it onto the mourning dress she will wear for the next six months. She poses for the camera, with her baby, holding him so that ...

She died 40 years later, in 1901, still in mourning, though she did relax the attitude somewhat in 1887 for the 50th anniversary of her reign. Especially in the 1860s and 1870s there was a tendency ...

PITTSFIELD — In the 1800s, public mourning rather than private grieving was a way of life. Victorian social etiquette laid down strict social rules for mourning, from the clothing worn to the length ...

Home » Arts » B-Side » Digging up Victorian-era mourning jewelry. Posted in Arts, B-Side Digging up Victorian-era mourning jewelry by Michael Azimi October 25, 2017 April 20, 2021. ... Typically, ...

Overland Trail Museum’s History Café took a dark turn this month, just in time for Halloween, with a focus on “Victorian Mourning and Spiritualism.” The Victorian era, which stretched from ...

The design of these $235,000 Christian Dior drops is rooted in a royal tragedy that goes back to Victorian times.