Afternoon dress, 1876–78, American, silk, The popularity of black in the second half of the nineteenth century was stimulated by the introduction of chemical dyes of that color in the 1860s. While tasteful and timeless, black remained associated with death and the garb of the widow—a woman often imagined as dangerously independent and alluring
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