A mother makes a button from the hair of her dead infant. She sews it onto the mourning dress she will wear for the next six months. She poses for the camera, with her baby, holding him so that ...

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In contemporary England, as well as in the United States, the donning of subdued black clothing can be an equalizer. In its best moments, it is a common costume for people unified in grief.

Black has long been associated with grief, but dress codes have shifted over the eras, including elaborate rules for Victorian-era mourners that lasted for years at a time.

In conjunction with the Halloween and Dia de los Muertos holidays, the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka has been displaying an exhibit of Victorian/Edwardian mourning dresses. These two eras ran ...

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