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Daily Independent
Elko, Elko County, Nevada
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British admiralty orders 90,000 black silk handkerchiefs annually as mourning for Nelson's death at Trafalgar. Discusses enduring mourning fashions from Queen Anne's era after Duke of Gloucester's death and ancient clean-shaven style set by Alexander, followed for 500 years.
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The British admiralty's annual order for black silk handkerchiefs for the navy, recently placed for 90,000, led to inquiries, "why black?" It is said to be as mourning for Nelson's death at Trafalgar. Another instance of long-continued mourning is shown in the dark clothes officially worn by the Anglo-Saxon race: at the decease of the duke of Gloucester, Queen Anne's heir-apparent, the bar went into mourning and has never doffed this, though the lapse of the Stuart dynasty on the British throne was scarcely to be regretted. Doubtless the largest following of one fashion by men was after Alexander set the style of having the face clean shaven: this was kept up by the Graeco-Roman world for five hundred years.
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The British admiralty's annual order for 90,000 black silk handkerchiefs for the navy, recently placed, is said to be in mourning for Nelson's death at Trafalgar. Another instance of long-continued mourning is the dark clothes officially worn by the Anglo-Saxon race following the decease of the Duke of Gloucester, Queen Anne's heir-apparent; the bar went into mourning and has never doffed it, though the lapse of the Stuart dynasty was scarcely regretted. The largest following of one fashion by men was after Alexander set the style of having the face clean shaven, kept up by the Graeco-Roman world for five hundred years.