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Post by kmeireis on Jul 31, 2010 10:36:39 GMT -5
I saw the picture at the link below and for a moment I was confused. I did not think that they wore black at all unless they were mourning. Is this the interpreter's mistake or am I mistaken. Any insight would be great! www.thomason-photography.net/CBML/large-88.html
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Post by bennettgirl on Jul 31, 2010 11:01:39 GMT -5
actually back became quite the fashionable color in the later regency period. also black accessories where often worn by people coming out of mourning.
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Post by kmeireis on Jul 31, 2010 11:22:14 GMT -5
Thank you for that. I knew that people often retained a little black when they came out of mourning but I had no idea that it was actually fashionable! Just goes to show that you can learn something new everyday!
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Post by lastbloom on Jul 31, 2010 12:44:40 GMT -5
Also, mourning customs didn't really reach their peak of strictness and formalization until Queen Victoria's reign, when she went "all out" in her mourning for her husband, Prince Albert. That is not to say, of course, that there were no mourning practices in the Georgian and Regency periods!
I agree with bennetgirl, and think it's likely that those accessories (if not worn by someone coming out of mourning) belonged to an older or married lady. I don't think black would have been viewed as appropriate for a young, unmarried girl.
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