widow’s weeds

Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with line Sewing lace on widow’s weeds And filigree on leaf and vine.

A big, poofy white tutu is the antithesis of widow’s weeds.

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Heather McClintock-Racz stood on the slopes wearing 19th century widow’s weeds and a broad hat.

In the Victorian era, people in mourning wore a black armband or dressed in black clothing known as “widow’s weeds,” so that others would know that they required tender respect.