Collecting 27.07.2010
Textiles Tuesday: 19th Century, Part 2
Women were the symbolic representation of the family, from its wealth to its respectability. By the turn of the century,…
Collecting 20.07.2010
Textiles Tuesday: 19th Century, Part 1
Throughout the 19th century, the height of the mourning industry and cult cut through class structures and was dominated and…
Collecting 13.07.2010
Textiles Tuesday: 18th Century, Part 2
Male costume in the 18th century still retains the conventions of the 17th century, but adapts closer to popular fashion…
Collecting 06.07.2010
Textiles Tuesday: 18th Century, Part 1
The 18th century welcomed in greater convention for mourning fashion and began to see the rise of the mourning industry….
Collecting 29.06.2010
Textiles Tuesday: 17th Century, Part 2
Men’s fashion over this century followed on from Elizabethan times, as mourning cloaks and hats still remained popular. It wasn’t…
Collecting 22.06.2010
Textiles Tuesday: 17th Century, Part 1
As the primary mourning colour, black was adopted in the fourteenth century, where Planche notes that the earliest record of…
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