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Victorian forays
Fanfair
Victorian forays
Victorian forays
After a year of transition, the Costume Institute galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art light up this month with a lavish exhibition which the museum hopes will equal those installed for the last fifteen years by fashion empress Diana Vreeland. The subject is dress in the age of another empress, Queen Victoria, an age when rules dictated fashion, including what a widow wore for two years following her husband's death. After Prince Albert died, Victoria herself wore black for forty years. But then again, says curator Caroline Goldthorpe, "Victoria had fabulous black."
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