#mourning fashions

[vintagefashionplates]

Illustrierte Frauenzeitung, 1897 by pastlivesfinery

[catebees]

Dwarven ladies are an underrepresented demographic in Dragon Age and I'm here to fix that

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Dress.

Date: ca. 1868

Medium: Watered silk faille, soutache cording, metal.

~ From the source: Margaretta Sophia Howard Ridgely (1824–1904) likely purchased this royal blue, silk moiré visiting dress during her travels through England and France in 1870. Black soutache cording embellishes the dress, which closes in the front with metal hooks and eyes and black thread-covered wooden buttons. Ridgely's husband, Charles Ridgely (1838–1872), did not survive the trip and passed away in 1872, upon which Margaretta entered mourning, wearing only blacks, greys, and later dull purples. This dress, so eye-catching and vibrant, would have been inappropriate to wear in mourning and was packed away, never to be worn again.

[frostedmagnolias]

Mourning gown

c. 1885-1890

silk (moiré, velvet, satin, lace), cotton

MME Delbarre

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

[drieddpetals]

i just want to remind everyone that, since the grishaverse is kinda sorta based on the victorian era, and since wealthy victorian families dressed their toddlers (girls or boys) in dresses, and wylan was very wealthy growing up, there are definitely family portraits in existence of baby wylan wearing one of those goofy ass victorian baby dresses

[artschoolglasses]

Mourning Dress, French, 1874

From the Met Museum

[seathernycolors]

bird nerd !

[nipuni]

Photos from last month at the Lazaro Galdiano museum for a event! 😊

[rabdoidal]

a clandestine meeting interrupted c. 1861. the ladies crowley and fell found conversing unattended in the parlour without chaperone nor candlelight, who both seemed flushed and annoyed to be found out by other party attendants

🖼️ kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🖼️

[vintagefashionplates]

Le Moniteur de la Mode. / Journal du Grand Monde.

Caption: ‘Chapeau et Bonnet de Barénne & C"ie Chale en Drap- Brodé de Velours et Robe en Velours écossais de la Maison Popelin-Ducarre.’ print maker: Lecomte after drawing by: Jules David (1808-1892) Paris, 1844

(x)

[in-herbones]

My newest 🖤 comes 6/23 @ 3pm pst

[frostedmagnolias]

Mourning Dress

c. 1874

Glasgow Museums

[tanuki-kimono]

Half-mourning obi depicting rising hasu (lotus) on delicate celadon ground.

If all black obi are worn for mourning, half mourning garb presents soft muted colors (like dulled lilac, blue, green).

Nowadays, such items are usually supposed to be worn for houji (Buddhist memorial service) or shinobukai (memorial meeting to remember a dead person​).

[shakingparadigm]

VERY interesting how Q and V designed Till's R6 outfit with kpop boybands in mind, yet designed Ivan's R6 outfit like that of an actor. Something about how Till has finally succumbed and conformed to the pressure of the idol industry and how Ivan is putting on a final act before dropping his mask and throwing all of his feelings out in the open.

[artschoolglasses]

Mourning Dress, American, 1872-74

From the Met Museum

[vaguely-concerned]

I do love emmrich's default outfit so much... he looks like he's wearing some delicate cross between a tropical plant and a lovingly dissected dead body (admiring). a corpse orchid if you will