As Coco Chanel once said: "One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a little black dress" - so what really is the significance behind this must-have wardrobe essential ...

At one point in the teaser, Swift wears a high-necked black gown with puffed sleeves and ruffle details. A fan on X (formerly Twitter) compared the look to a “Victorian mourning dress.” ...

The shade used to be off-limits, reserved solely for those in mourning. In the Victorian era ... if you were in black, you weren’t attending them in the first place. Jump to: Black dresses to wear to ...

Overland Trail Museum’s History Café took a dark turn this month, just in time for Halloween, with a focus on “Victorian ... period of mourning. Men were required to wear black gloves ...