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Mourning dress had traditionally been worn to respect the death of a relative or member of the royal family, but rules regarding women's dress became stricter and more complicated during the Victorian period, before relaxing in the 1890s. Styles were the same as for fashionable dress but colours and fabrics differed. Nothing but black, matt fabrics were worn in deepest mourning, especially crape and bombazine; followed by less crape for second mourning; then black silks, velvets and jet ornaments for ordinary mourning; and finally white, grey and shades of purple for half-mourning.

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'London Fashionable Mourning Dresses', September 1805, published in The Lady's Magazine - NPG D47529'London Fashionable Mourning Dresses', September 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
NPG D47529
'London fashionable Afternoon Dresses', April 1805, published in The Lady's Magazine - NPG D47538'London fashionable Afternoon Dresses', April 1805
published in The Lady's Magazine
NPG D47538
'Promenade Dress', November 1828, published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c - NPG D47613'Promenade Dress', November 1828
published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c
NPG D47613
Half-mourning costume, summer 1837, published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes - NPG D47726Half-mourning costume, summer 1837
published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
NPG D47726
Children's costume, summer 1837, published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes - NPG D47731Children's costume, summer 1837
published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
NPG D47731
Toilette de deuil and toilette de ville, September 1842, published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum, first published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes - NPG D47903Toilette de deuil and toilette de ville, September 1842
published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum, first published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
NPG D47903
'The Fashions'. Ball and walking dress, January 1862, published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode - NPG D47995'The Fashions'. Ball and walking dress, January 1862
published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode
NPG D47995