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Just think of these dresses as as step down from what you'd wear to a cocktail attire event - more casual details and fabrics, like cotton blends, are okay for a semi-formal wedding

(The queen of 1950s Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, would be all over this dress!) To complete this effortlessly glam look, keep your hair down and style it in loose curls

The entire mourning ensemble, usually consisting of a black silk or bombazine dress worn with either a 'weeping veil' covering the face outdoors, or a 'widow's cap' indoors, was colloquially known as "widow's weeds" from the Old English word waed, which roughly translates as 'garment'

You can store it and use it later on everything from salads to a dipping sauce for oven-baked chicken tenders