Cats Costumery | What Widows Wore: Victorian Mourning Dress @CatsCostumery | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 47 minutes ago.
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!
This is my first video in this style so please bear with me while I work it out! I don't think I'd ever spoken to the camera for longer than a minute before. I became interested in mourning dress in the Victorian and Edwardian period about two years ago and spent a lot of time doing research to write something about it. I mainly just found all the information very interesting, so I wanted to share it.
A slight disclaimer: this is only a summary/introduction level into Mourning dress! There is a lot more that we can talk about (particularly I would like to investigate more in the differences between men and women's dress, and also between social classes) but I could not fit it into this video!
If you would like to see more videos by all of the wonderful creators participating in CoCoVid, we have a downloadable, printable program just for you, with links directly to each person's channel! It also includes an explanation of the ribbon game and the link to the Discord server! It can be found here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1kqbvE_sdgdZyjHxxwUtC8Pmn_MPAuA7z/view?usp=sharing
Here are the two archives I mentioned:
Vogue Magazine about.proquest.com/products-services/vogue_archive.html
Harper's Bazaar about.proquest.com/products-services/Harpers-Bazaar-Archive.html
These may be available through your institution or local public library, however their content is copyrighted so I could not include the magazine pages in this video.
Here is the blog post with the full version of the research: happilyevertaffeta.wordpress.com/?p=2454
And here are my references! The text references all appear on the left hand side of the bottom screen, and the image references appear on the bottom right of the screen in brackets. The image references won't fit into the description box, so they will be in a pinned comment below.
Text References
1. Queen of Great Britain Victoria, ‘The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861’ p.473-4 gutenberg.org/files/28649/28649-h/28649-h.html
2. Taylor, Lou, Mourning Dress (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983), p.134
3. Buck, Anne, ‘The Trap Re-baited: Mourning Dress 1860-1890’ Costume 2 suppl. 1 (1968), p. 32
4. Harper's Bazaar, suppl. Supplement: Dress Patterns ; New York Vol. 31, Iss. 39, (Sep
24, 1898): 823.
5. Anon, ‘Answers to Correspondents’ Vogue Vol. 18, Iss. 3, (Jul 18, 1901), p. 47.
6. Taylor, p. 20.
7. Anon, ‘Fashion: Rules for Wearing of Mourning’ Vogue Vol. 15, Iss. 6, (Feb 8, 1900), p. vi.
8. Taylor, p. 136.
9. Taylor, p. 134.
10. Buck, p. 33.
11. Benesh, Carolyn L. E. ‘Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire’, Ornament, vol. 38. No. 1 (2015), p. 21.
12. Benesh, p. 22.
13. Abijes, Mme de. Deuil, Ceremonial, Usages, Toilettes (Paris: Grand Maison de Noir, 1885), pp. 27-29.
14. Taylor, p. 131.
15. Taylor. p. 150.
16. Anon, ‘Answers to Correspondents’, Vogue, Vol. 22, Iss. 4, (Jan 28, 1904), p. 131.
17. Lynn, Eleni, Underwear: fashion in detail (London: Victoria and Albert), p.44
18. Buck. p. 35.
19. Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping, 1800-1914 (London: Harper Collins, 1981) p. 67.
20. Anon, ‘New York Fashions’, Harper's Bazaar ; New York Vol. 28, Iss. 29, (Jul 20, 1895): 575.
21. Buck, p. 37.
22. Bedikian, Sonia. ‘The Death of Mourning: from Victorian crepe to the Little Black Dress’, Omega , Vol. 57. No. 1 (2008), p. 43.
23. Taylor, p. 267.
24. Weber, Parkes. Aspects of Death and Correlated Aspects of Life in Art (Fisher Unwin: London, 1918), p. 427.
25. Bedikian, p. 47.
If you are interested in seeing some more of my work, here are some links:
Please consider supporting me on Patreon, patreon.com/catscostumery :)
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For business inquiries, email catscostumery@makrwatch.com
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!
This is my first video in this style so please bear with me while I work it out! I don't think I'd ever spoken to the camera for longer than a minute before. I became interested in mourning dress in the Victorian and Edwardian period about two years ago and spent a lot of time doing research to write something about it. I mainly just found all the information very interesting, so I wanted to share it.
A slight disclaimer: this is only a summary/introduction level into Mourning dress! There is a lot more that we can talk about (particularly I would like to investigate more in the differences between men and women's dress, and also between social classes) but I could not fit it into this video!
If you would like to see more videos by all of the wonderful creators participating in CoCoVid, we have a downloadable, printable program just for you, with links directly to each person's channel! It also includes an explanation of the ribbon game and the link to the Discord server! It can be found here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1kqbvE_sdgdZyjHxxwUtC8Pmn_MPAuA7z/view?usp=sharing
Here are the two archives I mentioned:
Vogue Magazine about.proquest.com/products-services/vogue_archive.html
Harper's Bazaar about.proquest.com/products-services/Harpers-Bazaar-Archive.html
These may be available through your institution or local public library, however their content is copyrighted so I could not include the magazine pages in this video.
Here is the blog post with the full version of the research: happilyevertaffeta.wordpress.com/?p=2454
And here are my references! The text references all appear on the left hand side of the bottom screen, and the image references appear on the bottom right of the screen in brackets. The image references won't fit into the description box, so they will be in a pinned comment below.
Text References
1. Queen of Great Britain Victoria, ‘The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861’ p.473-4 gutenberg.org/files/28649/28649-h/28649-h.html
2. Taylor, Lou, Mourning Dress (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983), p.134
3. Buck, Anne, ‘The Trap Re-baited: Mourning Dress 1860-1890’ Costume 2 suppl. 1 (1968), p. 32
4. Harper's Bazaar, suppl. Supplement: Dress Patterns ; New York Vol. 31, Iss. 39, (Sep
24, 1898): 823.
5. Anon, ‘Answers to Correspondents’ Vogue Vol. 18, Iss. 3, (Jul 18, 1901), p. 47.
6. Taylor, p. 20.
7. Anon, ‘Fashion: Rules for Wearing of Mourning’ Vogue Vol. 15, Iss. 6, (Feb 8, 1900), p. vi.
8. Taylor, p. 136.
9. Taylor, p. 134.
10. Buck, p. 33.
11. Benesh, Carolyn L. E. ‘Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire’, Ornament, vol. 38. No. 1 (2015), p. 21.
12. Benesh, p. 22.
13. Abijes, Mme de. Deuil, Ceremonial, Usages, Toilettes (Paris: Grand Maison de Noir, 1885), pp. 27-29.
14. Taylor, p. 131.
15. Taylor. p. 150.
16. Anon, ‘Answers to Correspondents’, Vogue, Vol. 22, Iss. 4, (Jan 28, 1904), p. 131.
17. Lynn, Eleni, Underwear: fashion in detail (London: Victoria and Albert), p.44
18. Buck. p. 35.
19. Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping, 1800-1914 (London: Harper Collins, 1981) p. 67.
20. Anon, ‘New York Fashions’, Harper's Bazaar ; New York Vol. 28, Iss. 29, (Jul 20, 1895): 575.
21. Buck, p. 37.
22. Bedikian, Sonia. ‘The Death of Mourning: from Victorian crepe to the Little Black Dress’, Omega , Vol. 57. No. 1 (2008), p. 43.
23. Taylor, p. 267.
24. Weber, Parkes. Aspects of Death and Correlated Aspects of Life in Art (Fisher Unwin: London, 1918), p. 427.
25. Bedikian, p. 47.
If you are interested in seeing some more of my work, here are some links:
Please consider supporting me on Patreon, patreon.com/catscostumery :)
Instagram: @catscostumery
instagram.com/catscostumery
Blog: happilyevertaffeta.wordpress.com
Facebook: facebook.com/catscostumery
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/V7V7HRLN
For business inquiries, email catscostumery@makrwatch.com
