Fashionable Mourning in Late Victorian New York
by
Rebecca McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Somber black crepe gowns, long black veils, a strand of Whitby jet beads or a bracelet braided from a loved one’s hair, black-edged handkerchiefs-these were just some of the trappings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mourning. Middle- and upper-class Americans of this era were expected...