In honor of Death Becomes Her, click through for the best mourning costumes in film, from Elizabeth Taylor decked out in an Egyptian style ensemble in Cleopatra, to Gladys George wearing an iconic look in The Maltese Falcon.

A lot of our notions of etiquette come from the Victorian era when the middle class was on the rise and everyone wanted to show everyone else how on point they were with all of the intricacies of e…

Here is an illustration of a Victorian lady modelling a Ladies’ Mourning Costume. The costume is made from black Henrietta cloth and crape. The bonnet is a stylish capote and a crape veil is worn. The illustration is from the October 1889 issue of The Delineator magazine. Here is a black and white clip art version of...Read More

For its first fall exhibition in seven years, the Costume Institute highlights the dramatic mourning clothes of the 18th and early 19th centuries

The art of mourning in Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries: a look at post-mortem and memorial photographs and memorabilia.

Wearing widow's weeds and holding photograph of their loved ones, photos show Victorians in mourning as part of a trend that saw them pictured in the throes of their grief.

THE SECOND HUSBAND. BY MRS. E. BENNERS. WE often see young men in the gaiety of youth, resolve against marrying while they enjoy health and spirits; and we as often see, that some unforeseen accident disconcerts all their fine resolutions. So it was with Julius de Mersaint. Young, rich, handsome, possessing all the advantages of…