Mourning Dress (Routledge Revivals): A Costume and Social History

ISBN-13: 9780415556545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 324 str.

Lou Taylor

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. The Function and Ritual of European Funerals  2. The Social Status of Widows  3. The Origins of Fashionable Mourning Dress up to 1600  4. Mourning Dress, 1600-1700  5. Mourning Dress, 1700-1800  6. Mourning Dress 1800-1910  7. Children and Mourning  8. The Mourning Dress and Textile Industries  9. Mourning Jewellery  10. The Colours of Mourning  11. The Breakdown of Mourning Traditions: Mourning Dress from 1910.

O autorze

Lou Taylor