Mourning and La Mode at the Court of Louis XVI.

Autor: Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly
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Zdroj: Costume: Journal of the Costume Society; 2005, Issue 39, p64-78, 15p
Abstrakt: Examines the ways how fashion trends influenced mourning and how mourning traditions affected fashion in the eighteenth century in France. Hanging of black draperies in the walls and carriages of the family; Requirement for servants to wear mourning clothes; Implementation of a royal ordinance to shortened the required periods of mourning and radically reformed mourning etiquette; Variation of the length and details of mourning according to one's relationship to the deceased.
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