Nannie Haskins

Glamor and grieving: How the Victorians dressed for death

• mourning dress, which was meant to be a visible manifestation of grief. A 1863 diary entry from a Tennessee teenager named Nannie Haskins, which will be projected at the exhibition, makes the correlation plain: "What do I care whether it becomes me or not? I don't wear black because it becomes me .
• Date: Oct 21, 2014
• Category: Entertainment
• Source: Google