Cooper Hewitt,Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the release of its sixth DesignFile e-book, Widows Unveiled: Fashionable Mourning in Late Victorian original York by Rebecca McNamara. Illustrated with images of period costumes, and jewelry,accessories, drawings and photographs, and Widows Unveiled analyzes mourning etiquette and its accoutrements,interprets the abundant negative stereotypes of widows in visual culture and explains...
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