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Taylor Swift wears a wedding dress and Victorian mourning dress in the music video for her single 'Fortnight' and fans are decoding the outfits' meaning. Get the details.
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 ...
Queen Victoria, in a mourning head-dress Source: Carl Rudolph Sohn (1845-1908) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Victorian society of the late 1800s was obsessed with death.
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 ...
Fans spotted the actress wearing a Khaite design in the Spotify visuals for “But Daddy I Love Him” and “Clara Bow" among other songs. Here’s what it may mean.
Fashion and funerals have been intertwined for centuries. In today's society, mourning a death in the family usually calls for the most formal black outfit in the wardrobe, whereas 156 years ago ...
The C.H. Moore Homestead and Dewitt County Museum in Clinton is furnished almost as if its namesake former resident died yesterday. The museum is also expecting sellout candlelight tour nights.
Meet the Headstone Hunter: She dresses like a Victorian mourner, spends every day in a graveyard... and she's best friends with a GHOST. Published: 11:42 EDT, 30 October 2012 | Updated: 11:42 EDT ...
In time for Halloween, Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles will present its 13th annual Mourning Tours, an interactive opportunity that explores how people during the Victorian era dealt with dea… ...
On the homestead’s second floor, genuine Victorian-era mourning dresses are laid out upon beds or fitted on mannequins. “The widows were expected to be in mourning, or half mourning, much ...
DeWitt County Museum Director Joey Long shows a genuine Victorian-era mourning dress Sunday for special tours to be held in October showcasing old funeral practices at the Clinton homestead.