However, I know that mourning etiquette is somewhat complicated, and it differs depending on one’s relation to the deceased, so I thought I would ask your expertise. Skip to main content Arrow-right ...

Despite vehement efforts to kill them off, rituals connected with death keep coming back. They may not look as good, but they are recognizable. Long ago, Miss Manners noticed that sunglasses had ...

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.

Mourning clothes—along with other facets of grief—were highly regimented in Victorian England ... But the modern funeral industry is, of course, no better—it’s an exhausting ...

Descending the steps into the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's newest exhibition, "Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire," feels like entering a funeral procession frozen ...

Mourning and special clothing have long gone together, dating back to biblical times, when the bereft wore sackcloth. We might imagine it as something like burlap, but it was actually made of goat ...

Death, it seems, is having a moment. Our modern world is seemingly plagued by terror, war and shocking disregard for our fellow human beings. Over the past few decades, more and more people have ...

London Fashion Week featured sweeping black Victorian-inspired gowns. While New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has just played host to a smash-hit exhibition of mourning attire. Kim Kelly ...

Mourners in the 19th century collected “relics” of the deceased, such as buttons and hair clippings, dressed in mourning clothes for a long time, and emphasized the sadness of the death itself.

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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.