mourning attire
Grief's dark garments
Mourning attire is clothing worn to express grief after someone's death.
In Western tradition, this typically means black or dark clothing, though customs vary across cultures.
The term covers both funeral dress and the extended period of wearing somber clothes afterward: She wore mourning attire for a full year after her husband died.
The practice has grown less formal in modern times.
- blackDarkest possible hue
- black dressDark formal women's garment
- wearing blackDonning the darkest hue
- veilFabric that obscures
- funeral veilFace covering for grief
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- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- Victorian etiquettecalling hours, visiting cards, chaperoning, propriety, decorum
- Victorian fashionbustles, corsets, crinolines, hoop skirts, petticoats
- Islamic funeralsburial, shroud, funeral prayer, ritual washing, shrouding
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Clothes for matrimonial ceremonies
wedding dress · party dress · festive attire · bridal gown · holiday dress
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