Jessica Regan, The Costume Institutes assistant curator, told Newsweek that with the numerous war losses and women working outside the home and participating in the war effort, such standards no longer seemed relevant or practical. An article War Mourning in Europe and America in the June 1918 issue of Vogue pondered Whether American Women Will Abolish Mourning During the War, as many Englishwomen have, or, like the Frenchwomen, wear a lighter mourning than formerly, is still a question. As Harold Koda, the former curator-in-charge of the Costume Institute at the MET, noted in the Newsweek interview, Ritual practice helps us give form to something that you cant really articulate. That sentiment was on full display in 2022, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria
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