This episode took me forever to write. I was originally going to start with a blog post I wrote a few years ago, relying on primary sources on mourning from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Then, as I started to go through it, I started to reinterpret a number of the primary sources, … Continue reading AMBA: The Recent History of Mourning
Category: mourning
On Mourning
(I decided to write this post because I'm planning to branch out into historical social topics more frequently - but it lines up very well with an event this week! I will be attending Death Becomes You at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Halloween, in a post-Edwardian black wool dress with white collar and cuffs. Hope … Continue reading On Mourning
Cabinet des Modes, 20e Cahier, 2e Figure
September 1, 1786 PLATE II. LIKE the Lady drawn in the Ist PLATE, we have thought to represent in this a man in half-mourning. We would have given one in full mourning in the eighteenth Issue; but we would not be able to say to have given a fashionable man. Here is how a very-great … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 20e Cahier, 2e Figure
Cabinet des Modes, 18e Cahier, 2e Figure
August 1, 1786 A Man in great mourning, in a wool coat, without buttons on the parements and on the pockets. One wore, in summer, great mourning in voile, without buttons on the parements and pockets. The front of the coat of our drawn Man has only six buttons, one on top, two in the middle, and … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 18e Cahier, 2e Figure
Cabinet des Modes, 18e Cahier, 1ere Figure
August 1, 1786 It would be necessary on the occasion of a period of mourning to talk about its fashion: for the death of DON PEDRO, King of Portugal, we have furnished it. It has been worn for twenty-one days; we will say how when we have spoken of the periods of mourning according to … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 18e Cahier, 1ere Figure
Mimic of Modes 