Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead Main Menu Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section Dying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and Mourning Second Section Wearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of Death Third Section Up and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-Snatching Fourth Section Weird Science: Anatomical Use of the Dead Fifth Section Works Cited/Full-Texts/Further Readings

Mourning Dresses

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Showcasing the collection housed at the Met Museum, this entry presents the mourning attire worn by women throughout the Victorian era. Here we can see Victoria's influence on the mourning-fashion of the period. While viewers may see a variety in dresses, my attention is in the uniformity of the style--black crape dresses. What is striking here, though there may be slight alterations (the inlay of gold-colored thread, or ruffled cuffs), are the distinctions between classes that are underplayed under a popular base design. Victoria's model for public grief (read: state-sanctioned) is pervasive.

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