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Latex Boots

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House of Harlot, Victoria and Albert Museum

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Lace and Underwear

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“Louis Sussman Hellbonn(1828 - 1908) Sleeping Beauty National Gallery Berlin”

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Central Saint Martins at London Fashion Week Fall 2016

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1993 Little X Silhouette girdle, lycra and nylon, 1960s © V&A Collection

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Versace coat, FW 1992. Photo Massimo Listri

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Jacket bodice | V&A Search the Collections | Fashion, Historical fashion

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Sculpting the Body With Air & Fabric: "Cristóbal Balenciaga. Moda y Patrimonio" @ The Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, Getaria, Spain - 

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Costume, Underwear, Europe, ca. 1884, American or European, [no medium available], Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Silk, Dresses, Jet, North and Central America, United States, ca. 1883, American, silk, jet, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Silk, Dresses, North and Central America, United States, ca. 1842, American, Silk, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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American advertisement for bras and girdles by The Lovable Company. Photograph, 1966.

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A young woman modelling lingerie, circa 1948. Full credit: Roger Kennett / Granger

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Underwear: shifting notions of public and private

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Queen Victoria in mourning, half length directed to left, almost in profile; in widow’s outfit, with white crepe cap; in oval; with Royal Coat of Arms at bottom

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Wool trimmed with mourning crape and lined with glazed cotton; waistband made of cotton twill faced with glazed cotton, and fastened with metal hooks and eyes

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Victoria and Albert, 1860. Hand-coloured albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative

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A gold mourning brooch with black and white enamel frame set with circular miniature of Queen Victoria wearing the riband of the Order of the Garter

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Portrait of a Lady Writing a Letter, about 1795. Frédéric Dubois (French, active 1780–1819). Watercolor on ivory; diameter 7.9 cm. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ob

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Child’s grave, Raleigh, NC. “Jonnie, Born Oct 9, 1859, died June 24, 1860”

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Gold, enamel and hair mourning ring for Butterfield Harrison, England, 1792. Description reading “Nipt in the bud”, featuring a cut rose.

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Gold, enamel and hair mourning ring for Butterfield Harrison, England, 1792. Description reading “Nipt in the bud”, featuring a cut rose.

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ohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Farbenkreis zur Symbolisierung des menschlichen Geistes- und Seelenlebens, 1809, Original: Freies Deutsches Hochstift – Frankfurter G

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Studie zur Farbenlehre. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und Friedrich Schiller: “Die Temperamentenrose”…, 1835

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Full-length seated portrait photograph of Queen Victoria in mourning for Prince Albert.

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Collection of mourning and sentimental tokens donated to Art of Mourning

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Collection of mourning and sentimental jewels donated to Art of Mourning

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Likely that it was a gift from William Jardine and was worn when mourning the death of Jane Johnstone’s grandmother, Elizabeth Johnstone who died in 1825

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c.1882 Hand sewn grosgrain lined with cotton. Child’s mourning garment

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c.1530 memento mori, rosary chaplet made in ivory

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Full-length portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87), standing in mourning costume, with the Royal Arms of Scotland behind; she holds a crucifix in her right 

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Firm of John Brogden, drawing in pencil and watercolour on card. Courtesy V&A Museum.

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Mourning handkerchief owned by Queen Victoria. It is made of the finest cambric linen and the embroidery shows her own cipher.

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Between the 15th to the 20th centuries, white in fashion thrived in its symbolic message of purity, often amplifying the personal relation of the mourner to the deceased.
Stephanie Landucci

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Louise Françoise de Bourbon showing 1701 mourning fashion combination of black and white

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‘The Tolling Bell’, a hymn published by S.P.C.K in the 1840s, has an illustration of six girls carrying the coffin of an infant to the grave site. The girls are

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This print after a painting by Thomas Webster shows a young woman sat at a table, wearing a mourning cap and an apron, which covers her black dress. She rests h

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c.1827 A lady wearing a black (mourning) dinner party dress with flower and chevron detailing at the top of the bodice, lace collar and bunching around the hem.

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c.1809 print showing women’s and children’s mourning clothes.

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British School, Portrait of a Woman c.1635. Oil on canvas

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Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661). Portrait of a Lady, signed and dated 1624

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Mary, Queen of Scots in “white mourning”

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Miniature portrait of Mrs Jane Small by Hans Holbien. Watercolour on vellum, stuck to a playing card with five of diamonds

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Painted enamel portrait miniature in a gilt metal frame, c.1530-40.

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The veils, a common accessory of the specific attire, were created with fabric processed with chemicals that caused difficulty in breathing, blindness, and even death.

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The five daughters of Prince Albert , 1861

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Reference on Top of Book Page

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The austere style symbolised modesty, chastity and the renunciation of worldly allure. Thick matte fabrics had been in use for mourning wear since Medieval times.
(Taylor, 2001)

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The most commonly used fabrics were dull, crimped crape; cashmere; silk bengaline – a heavily corded fabric containing more cotton than silk; mousseline; taffeta; bombazine – woven with a silk warp and a worsted weft and usually trimmed with crape, the principle fabric of deep mourning for much of the 19th century – and paramatta, a cheaper type of bombazine.

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Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire – Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - October 21, 2014 to February 1, 2015.

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Different Sizes Ruffles - Volumes

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Jonghe, Gustave Léonhard de (b,1829)- Women Praying

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Le Petit Echo de la Mode, 31 October 1926

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 Queen Victoria led England's mourning of her husband Prince Albert.

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'Illustrated London News', 11 June 1864, p.565

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Tulips at the Keukenhof Gardens in Lisse, The Netherlands

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John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). Portrait of a Boy, 1890. Oil on canvas

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)

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Purchase, Arlene Cooper and Polaire Weissman Funds, 1996

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The Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum - Alexander McQueen