Death Becomes Her

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There is a great new exhibit in the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that explores the subject of mourning attire from the 1830s through 1915. "Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire" will be on display through February 1.

Harold Holzer just told me that they had 4,000 visitors to the exhibit just last Saturday! I had hoped there was an exhibition booklet to accompany it, but unfortunately there is none. Today's issue (Friday, November 14) of The Washington Post does have a nice article on the history, however. See their Style section C, pg 1 and continued on pg. 8.