Holidays Trends by CinthiaSpoon for FlowMag

FlowMag December Issue

Death Becomes Her Exhibit

"Black is becoming; a young widows, fair, plump, and smiling, with their roguish eyes sparkling under their black veils are very seducing.

Robert De Valcourt, The Illustrated Manners Book, 1885

  American

"She was a beginning to find that everyone had an air of remoteness; she seemed to see people and life through the confusing blur of the long crape veil in which it was a widow's duty to shroud her affliction"

Edith Wharton, New York Day, 1870's

"The scots shut themselves up in total darkness, wear veils, I know not how many folds, but so black that sitting beside them you could not tell whether it is a broomstick dressed up or what it is."

Elizabeth Emma Stuart, 1856

British

Queen Victoria

French

Killer Heels Exhibit 2014

"Shoes transform your body language and attitude they lift you physically and emotionally"