Mourning Dress
Author : Lou Taylor
Publisher : London ; Boston : G. Allen and Unwin
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780047460166
Author : Lou Taylor
Publisher : London ; Boston : G. Allen and Unwin
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780047460166
Author : Shannon Meyer
Publisher : Missouri Historical Society Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781883982843
What's the most important garment in a womans closet? More often than not, the answer is the little black dress. For decades, fashion magazines have touted the LBD as the perfect solution to almost every fashion crisis. Dressed up or down, with flats or heels, statement jewelry or a subdued jacket, the little black dress can be worn anywhere, for any occasion. Where did the little black dress come from? And how did black become the color of choice for every occasion? In Little Black Dress, Shannon Meyer answers these questions by offering a visual history of the black dress, illustrating its transformation from a traditional mourning garment to the fashion staple it is today. Richly illustrated with seventy full-color photos of dresses and accessories spanning 150 years, and including information about the designer, original owner, and historical context for each, readers will find Little Black Dress a stylish guide to this wardrobe essential. Designed to accompany an exhibit by the same name at the Missouri History Museum, the book will impress historians and fashionistas alike.
Author : Lou Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1135228434
First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the middle ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata. The result is a book which is not only of major importance to students of the history of dress but also to anyone who enjoys social history.
Author : Kate Strasdin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 147426994X
Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving garments of Alexandra, Princess of Wales – who later became Queen Consort – to unlock a rich tapestry of royal dress and society in the second half of the 19th century. More than 130 extraordinary garments from Alexandra's wardrobe survive, from sumptuous court dress and politicised fancy dress to mourning attire and elegant coronation gowns, and can be found in various collections around the world, from London, Oslo and Denmark to New York, Toronto and Tokyo. Curator and fashion scholar Kate Strasdin places these garments at the heart of this in-depth study, examining their relationships to issues such as body politics, power, celebrity, social identity and performance, and interpreting Alexandra's world from the objects out. Adopting an object-based methodology, the book features a range of original sources from letters, travel journals and newspaper editorials, to wardrobe accounts, memoirs, tailors' ledgers and business records. Revealing a shrewd and socially aware woman attuned to the popular power of royal dress, the work will appeal to students and scholars of costume, fashion and dress history, as well as of material culture and 19th century history.
Author : Lou Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1135228426
First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the middle ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata. The result is a book which is not only of major importance to students of the history of dress but also to anyone who enjoys social history.
Author : Larry Collins
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781950369218
Author : Elizabeth Meyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476783659
Elizabeth Meyer’s “sweet, touching, and funny” (Booklist) memoir reads as if “Carrie Bradshaw worked in a funeral home a la Six Feet Under” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City’s Upper East Side—mixing big money, society drama, and the universal experience of grieving—told from the unique perspective of a fashionista turned funeral planner. Elizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own father’s funeral, which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music, thousands of dollars worth of her mother’s favorite flowers, and a personalized eulogy. Starting as a receptionist, Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief, as well as creating fitting send-offs for some of the city’s most high-powered residents. Meyer has seen it all: two women who found out their deceased husband (yes, singular) was living a double life, a famous corpse with a missing brain, and funerals that cost more than most weddings. By turns illuminating, emotional, and darkly humorous, Good Mourning is a lesson in how the human heart grieves and grows—whether you’re wearing this season’s couture or drug-store flip-flops.
Author : Margaret Coffin
Publisher : Nashville : Nelson
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
On title page: The history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning.
Author : Chris Woodyard
Publisher : Kestrel Publications (OH)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780988192522
Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Home economics
ISBN :