color was not required to be lusterless. A veil was no longer required to be worn and there was a return to wearing her regular every day jewelry. During half‐mourning the widow eased herself back into more fashionable dress. This included the addition of color into the wardrobe. As the mourning period drew to a close the widow could add grey, mauve, purple, lavender, lilac, white and even at one point in history, dark red. With the death of Queen Victorian the elaborate rituals of mourning died in Europe. In America the massive deaths attributed to the Civil War ended elaborate rituals here, although many mourning customs still survived. Books regarding the etiquette of mourning were written well into the 1900s.
The mourning stycostume of Queen Victoria mimicked in the United States.
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