Examples Of Darkly Colored Clothing In The Victorian Era

People would need an invitation to go to funerals even if they were close friends or relatives in Victorian Britain. Death is when people die and begin their mourning process which means they start going around being kind of down all the time and wear dark clothing. Death in the Victorian era was viewed as a sad time with darkly colored clothing and a lot of rules.

The mourning process during the Victorian Era was the sad time for people after a member of their family has died. In the mourning process you have to wear darkly colored clothing like black. You would cover mirrors because people often thought the ghost of the person would get trapped in the mirror. The curtains would be drawn so that it could be dark when you would be mourning in the house. In the article Furst writes “The people became miserable until the mourning process has come to an end”(Elaina

The women would be expected to wear a long black dress color with a white collar and white cuffs on the sleeves of the dress. On their heads they would wear a bonnet. They would wear black little kid gloves. In the article Elaina Furst has written “All kinds of black fur and sealskin were worn during this period of time”(Furst). This means that they wore mostly dark colored animal skins and darkly colored animal fur coats.

When people died they were put in lighter colored clothing than during the mourning process. The remains of a man were kept in the same clothing they had on when they died. A woman was dressed in a white robe and a white hat. The children were dressed in a white cashmere robe. In the article Elaina Furst wrote “While the fashion code for mourners was quite detailed and extreme, the rules were quite the opposite for dressing the deceased”(Furst). This means that the dead got to wear more brightly colored clothing in the casket and the people mourning their death had to wear black or darkly colored