Veronique Hyland quotes Harold Koda in an article from The Cut:
“It was really unseemly for a woman not to go through full mourning.” (Which, if you’re keeping track, involved a year and a day of “full mourning,” an additional year of so-called “half-mourning,” and another six months of “ordinary mourning.”)
Read about the latest costume exhibit, Death Becomes Her, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art via The Cut, on NYmag.com .