Denise Green, the Lau Family Associate Professor and director of the Costume and Textile Collection, and Sephra Lamothe, a doctoral researcher, provide scholarly perspectives on the intersection of fashion and mourning.

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Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Martha Woodward Weber, 1930

Posted on
10/21/2026