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She probably felt so controlled, like she was in a figurative prison, so the dress was a way to break out of that.” At the time, women in the royal family were discouraged from wearing black unless they were in mourning
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(Even the merch is on point: a coffee-table book of medical illustrations and a book of morbid poetry displayed under a bell jar.) One quote projected on the wall comes from the 1867 etiquette manual Hints of Common Politeness : “When we see ladies persist in wearing sable, we are reminded of the reply a young widow made to her mother: ‘Don’t you see,’ said she, ‘it saves me the expense of advertising for a husband.’” When I asked her about the quip, assistant curator Jessica Regan explained, “This was often how widows were portrayed in popular culture, as using their mourning as something that was becoming and alluring.” Koda broke in, “That’s really double-edged, in that it’s a very sexist read, because men were able to come out of mourning and they could remarry in a month
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