Tag: mourning

  • Fashioning Horror, Pt. 2: Women in Black

    Happy Halloween, all! Women in Black: haunts, widows, ghosts, saints and sinners Today I explore those mysterious women in black. Black is culturally more complicated than white because its meanings are both contradictory and still evolving.   Many religious groups use black as the marker of a religious figure, whether priest, minister, or nun. The…

  • Love, Loss, & Auld Lang Syne

    At FIT, we spend a lot of time pondering the business and the art of dress.  But there are so many more stories that clothes can tell.  If every dress or pair of pants or skirt could talk, imagine the stories they’d tell.  From the depths of December, we offer you some remembrances of summers…