Back to black: 19th-century mourning dresses from
the current exhibition "Death Becomes Her: A Century of
Mourning Attire", showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, until 1 February. The museum's Costume Institute
exhibition traces the aesthetic and cultural development of
mourning fashion in the 19th and early-20th centuries. The clothes
display the impact of high-fashion on bereavement conventions as
they evolved from 1815-1915, including changes of
socially-appropriate fabrics and the later introduction of colours,
such as grey and mauve. The exhibits include mourning gowns worn by
Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra
Back to black: 19th-century mourning dresses from
the current exhibition "Death Becomes Her: A Century of
Mourning Attire", showing ...
Anglican novice killed in Solomon Islands
A NOVICE in a religious community in the Anglican Church of
Melanesia has been killed in an unprovoked street attack in the
Solomon Islands. Brother Jackson Lodo and another novice from the
Melanesian Brotherhood were walking through the capital Honiara
when they were attacked without warning on 30 October. Brother
Jackson was killed, and his companion who was severely injured in
the beating, remains in hospital.
Armenian genocide church destroyed by Islamists
ISLAMIST rebels in Syria have blown up and destroyed the
Armenian church in the town of Deir el-Zour which commemorated the
1.5 million victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide, The
Independent has reported. Fighters from the group Jabhat
al-Nusra are said to have destroyed the church and its unique
archive of documents, and thrown the bones of genocide victims into
the streets.