Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, the Costume Institute’s first fall exhibition in seven years, is on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anna Wintour Costume Center from October 21, 2014, through February 1, 2015. The exhibition explores the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Approximately 30 ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, are said to reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the sartorial dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved over a century. The thematic exhibition is organized chronologically and features mourning dress from 1815 to 1915, including mourning gowns worn by Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. For more info and to see a series of gallery views of the costumes in this exhibition go to (http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/death-becomes-her/gallery-views).