Clips from Fashion Adverts
These articles, published throughout the century, serve as an overview for the best attire and practices for "fashionable mourning," outlining the trends in female attire and qualities of mourning during the period. Particularly of note is the need for these articles to provide a critique of the fashion of the moment in something so private as mourning. Here we see a social need to be in fashion even while experiencing private forms of grief. We are left asking: What is the purpose of fashionable mourning? Is it just for the dead, or is the emphasis on the status and culturally-appropriate fashion of the mourners?