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Mourning Clothes |
07ÌýNov 2007
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TheÌýetiquette ofÌýmourning in Victorian times.
In the Victorian era, a woman was expected to wear mourning clothes for two and a half years after the death of her husband. He, meanwhile,Ìýhad to wear a black ribbon round his hat for just three months. Mourning became a huge industry in the age of Queen Victoria with vast emporiums opening up around the country to supply appropriate clothes and accessories - vital at a time when you could easily become a social outcast by wearing the wrong thing. Lesley Hilton went to meet Mairead Mahon, a historian at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds and Rosemary Hawthorne, a social historian who has a private collection of Victorian mourning clothes – and fabrics. |
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