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Twilight in the Wilderness, by American painter Frederick Edwin Church (1860). Cleveland Museum of Art.

Halloween postcards, 1908.

The Fairy Lovers, by English painter Theodore von Hoist (1840). Tate Britain.

'New style for dressing the hair, with details.' The Peterson Magazine, October, 1870.

Les Createurs de la Mode: a series of photographs published in 1910 about Paris' fashion industry. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Costume design from The October 1911 issue of The Ladies’ Home Journal.

If your second cousin died and you wanted to know what sort of mourning clothes you should wear and for how long, you consulted The Queen or Cassell’s or other manuals.

By the mid-1850s, there were roughly 50,000 deaths a year in London. Townships were running out of room to bury the deceased, causing sanitation issues and health concerns.

Evening dress originally published in Court magazine no. 46, April 1836.

Silver Favourites, by Dutch-British painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1903). Manchester Art Gallery.