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* Subverted in ''Literature/TheirEyesWereWatchingGod''. Janie is ''expected'' to dress in mourning after the death of her second husband, but because he was abusive and possessive (such as forcing her to cover her hair and wear plain dresses for twenty years so that other men wouldn't look at her), she's all too happy to wear carefree colorful clothing again. This is mentioned in TheMovie as well:
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-->'''Janie''': The same shade you've got on!
-->'''Phoeby''': (sarcastically) What shade of black is that?
-->'''Janie''': The same shade you've got on!
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I watched it more closely. They WERE on the ship.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the king and queen leave on a journey. The ship they are presumed, but never explicitly shown to be aboard, capsizes during a storm. The way we find out for sure that they did not survive the accident is that in the next scene, their daughter is wearing a black dress.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the king and queen leave on a journey. The ship they are presumed, but never explicitly shown to be aboard, capsizes during a storm. The way we find out for sure It is not outright stated that they did not survive the accident is that died, but their portraits are covered in the next scene, black cloth, and their daughter is wearing a black dress.
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* In the "Where Were You on the Night Batman was Killed?" arc in ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'', ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} wears widows weeds to the JokerJury trial being held to determine who deserves credit for killing Batman. She dramatically whips the weeds off to reveal her costume when she takes the stand. Several villains object to her making a show of mourning the Caped Crusader.
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* Updated at the Creator/MichaelJackson funeral with the women wearing dark glasses instead of a veil. The purpose is the same, to obscure the face and hide teary eyes.
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* Updated at the Creator/MichaelJackson funeral with the women wearing dark glasses instead of a veil. The purpose is the same, to obscure the face and hide teary eyes.eyes.
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* AI Natasha of ''Series/OtherSpace'' dons these to mourn the passing of [[spoiler:Art the robot]].
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* "Ballad of Forty Dollars" by Tom T. Hall. A man watching from a distance, but not actually attending his friend's funeral, hints at a desire to [[ComfortingTheWidow comfort the widow]] when he sees how attractive she is. He notes:
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* "Ballad of Forty Dollars" by [[Music/TomTHall Tom T. Hall.Hall]]. A man watching from a distance, but not actually attending his friend's funeral, hints at a desire to [[ComfortingTheWidow comfort the widow]] when he sees how attractive she is. He notes:
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Not only at the [[DuetotheDead funeral service]], but also any time she is [[GraveMarkingScene visiting his grave]], a woman in mourning is shown wearing a black dress and/or a black hat with a veil. Usually this is the widow of the deceased, but it can be other close female relatives as well, such as his mother, sister, or daughter. Main/SpearCounterpart is a man wearing a black armband to show mourning, since men wear black suits in other contexts as well.
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Using black clothing to demonstrate mourning a person who has died. Not only at the [[DuetotheDead funeral service]], but also any time she is [[GraveMarkingScene visiting his grave]], a woman in mourning is shown wearing a black dress and/or a black hat with a veil. Usually this is the widow of the deceased, but it can be other close female relatives as well, such as his mother, sister, or daughter. Main/SpearCounterpart is a man wearing a black armband to show mourning, since men wear black suits in other contexts as well.
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Not to be confused with BlackWidow. Or a widow carrying [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs THOSE kind of weeds]]. Compare WomanInBlack, but this is more specific and less vampy. \n Its sole purpose is to communicate nonverbally that someone has died.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the king and queen leave on a journey. The ship they are presumed, but never explicitly shown to be aboard, capsizes during a storm. The way we find out for sure that they did not survive the accident is that in the next scene, their daughter is wearing a black dress.
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* In ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', DeterminedWidow Alma Garrett is often seen in black, and when she eventually wears other colors they're still subdued, like dark green.
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** Queen Victoria herself wore mourning [[UpToEleven for the rest of her life]] after the death of her husband Prince Albert.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
** In "Innocence" after Angel turns evil, Buffy has a dream that she's at a funeral, during which Angel draws her attention to a woman wearing the mourning veil, which she lifts to reveal Jenny Calender, [[DreamingTheTruth tipping off Buffy about her]] being TheMole.
** In "Villains", Buffy changes into a black shirt [[spoiler:after finding Tara's body.]] Willow has already done a black makeover, [[EvilCostumeSwitch albeit for entirely different reasons]].
** In "Innocence" after Angel turns evil, Buffy has a dream that she's at a funeral, during which Angel draws her attention to a woman wearing the mourning veil, which she lifts to reveal Jenny Calender, [[DreamingTheTruth tipping off Buffy about her]] being TheMole.
** In "Villains", Buffy changes into a black shirt [[spoiler:after finding Tara's body.]] Willow has already done a black makeover, [[EvilCostumeSwitch albeit for entirely different reasons]].
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* In ''Film/FleshAndTheDevil'', Felicitas is shown primping in front of a mirror. Then she puts on a veil, which is how the film lets the viewer know who won the duel between Leo and von Rhaden.
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* Sonia is wearing the standard black dress and veil at the beginning of ''[[Film/TheMerryWidow1934 The Merry Widow]]''. This doesn't stop Captain Danilo from wooing her, but it does stop him from recognizing her when they meet again in Paris.
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* ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'': In a "what if" FantasySequence, Melody is persuading Alan M to let Josie help out more, instead of playing macho and doing it all himself. She describes a future in which Alan M and Josie are married, and Alan M works himself into an early grave trying to support her. "Before long, Josie is buying a dress she hadn't planned for." Josie is pictured in a black veil, shopping for the dress to wear to his funeral, while a sales clerk observes, "Basic black? We've been selling a lot of those lately."
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* ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'': In a "what if" FantasySequence, Melody is persuading Alan M to let Josie help out more, instead of playing macho and doing it all himself. She describes a future in which [[StayInTheKitchen Alan M and Josie are married, and Alan M works himself into an early grave trying to support her.her]]. "Before long, Josie is buying a dress she hadn't planned for." Josie is pictured in a black veil, shopping for the dress to wear to his funeral, while a sales clerk observes, "Basic black? We've been selling a lot of those lately."
** Seen [[http://www.armagideon-time.com/?p=151 here]]
** Seen [[http://www.armagideon-time.com/?p=151 here]]
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* In ''The Serpent's Shadow'' of the ''Literature/ElementalMasters'' series, Dr. Maya Witherspoon is introduced as wearing a black outfit in mourning for her parents, who died a few months previous. It is mentioned that she intends to prolong the year of mourning as long as possible as a form of protection, as she is of mixed British and Indian descent and even a brute would hesitate to insult a woman of mixed race that is in mourning. In ''The Gates of Sleep'', Marina Roeswood is, following the death of her parents, outfitted with a new and all-black wardrobe by her Aunt Arachne. Marina wishes at one point that her aunt didn't require her to be in dressed in the strictest possible interpretation of mourning, as normally young unmarried women could wear mauve, lavender, or violet during mourning without offending anyone. She even thinks to herself that she would end up looking like Queen Victoria or a would-be Gothic poetess before her period of mourning is over.
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* In the Literature/{{Deryni}} novels by KatherineKurtz, the widowed Queen Jehana wears all white (suitable to royal widows) for several years after her husband's death. Her quasi-nunlike apparel is also a form of protest against her son's open use of magic and his close relationships with other mages.
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* In the Literature/{{Deryni}} novels by KatherineKurtz, Creator/KatherineKurtz, the widowed Queen Jehana wears all white (suitable to royal widows) for several years after her husband's death. Her quasi-nunlike apparel is also a form of protest against her son's open use of magic and his close relationships with other mages.
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* In ''Theatre/TheAddingMachine'', Mrs. Zero wears a black dress and a heavy veil while visiting her husband on the eve of his execution. He scolds her about the cost ($64.20): "You'll be scrubbin' floors in about a year, if you go blowin' your coin like that."
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* In ''Theatre/TheAddingMachine'', Mrs. Zero wears a black dress ("I always look good in black," she says) and a heavy veil while visiting her husband on the eve of his execution. He scolds her about the cost ($64.20): "You'll be scrubbin' floors in about a year, if you go blowin' your coin like that."
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* In ''Theatre/TheAddingMachine'', Mrs. Zero wears a black dress and a heavy veil while visiting her husband on the eve of his execution. He scolds her about the cost ($64.20): "You'll be scrubbin' floors in about a year, if you go blowin' your coin like that."
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* In ''RockosModernLife'', Dr. Hutchison's mother, the Widow Hutchinson is always scene wearing a black dress and veil. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed that her husband isn't actually dead.]]
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* In ''RockosModernLife'', Dr. Hutchison's mother, the Widow Hutchinson is always scene seen wearing a black dress and veil. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed that her husband isn't actually dead.]]
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* In ''RockosModernLife'', Dr. Hutchison's mother, the Widow Hutchinson is always scene wearing a black dress and veil. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed that her husband isn't actually dead.]]
* In ''RockosModernLife'', Dr. Hutchison's mother, the Widow Hutchinson is always scene wearing a black dress and veil. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed that her husband isn't actually dead.]]
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* In ''Theatre/StreetScene'', Rose changes into a black dress after her mother dies. Her father notices.
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Not to be confused with BlackWidow. Or a widow carrying [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs THOSE kind of weeds]]. Compare WomanInBlack, but this is more specific and less vampy.
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* "Whiskey Lullaby" by Music/BradPaisley and Music/AlisonKrauss. In the video, the guilt-ridden ex-fianceé of the deceased is shrouded in a black shawl at the gravesite.
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* "Whiskey Lullaby" by Music/BradPaisley and Music/AlisonKrauss. In the video, the guilt-ridden ex-fianceé of the deceased is shrouded in a black shawl at the gravesite.
gravesite. Another woman, presumably his mother, is shown wearing a black veiled hat.
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* Music/CarrieUnderwood sings "Two Black Cadillacs" about the funeral of a man who had left both a wife and a lover. One line in the refrain mentions how "the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry."
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* Music/CarrieUnderwood sings "Two Black Cadillacs" about the funeral of a man who had left both a wife and a lover. One line in the refrain mentions how "the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry." Overlaps with BlackWidow since it is suggested that the women teamed up to take revenge on him after discovering his two-timing.
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* "Whiskey Lullaby" by Music/BradPaisley and Music/AlisonKrauss. In the video, the guilt-ridden ex-fianceé of the deceased is shrouded in a black shawl at the gravesite.
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* Averted in ''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Still the Beaver]]'', a Main/MadeForTVMovie showing June talking to Ward's grave, but not wearing a black dress or a veil.
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* Averted in ''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Still the Beaver]]'', a Main/MadeForTVMovie showing June talking to Ward's grave, but not wearing a black dress or a veil.
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* The ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Night in Sickbay" had Archer having a DreamSequence where he and T'Pol were all dressed up in traditional earth mourning clothes [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Porthos's funeral]].
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* The ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Night in Sickbay" had Archer having a DreamSequence where he and T'Pol were all dressed up in traditional earth mourning clothes for [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Porthos's funeral]].
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* The ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Night in Sickbay" had Archer having a DreamSequence where he and T'Pol were all dressed up in traditional earth mourning clothes [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Porthos's funeral]].
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* Parodied in a ''Series/KidsInTheHall'' musical segment, "Terriers." During the instrumental break, Bruce [=McCulloch=] comes across two veiled women in black bikinis, dancing beside a grave. He asks them politely to leave because "You're scantily clad and have nothing to do with the narrative; therefore, it's sexist... Wow. That hurt."
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* Music/TheMarsVolta: Referenced in a hypothetical context in "Cassandra Gemini."
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* Music/TheMarsVolta: Referenced in a hypothetical context in "Cassandra Gemini."
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* Music/TheBeatles recorded "Baby's in Black," about a man pining after a woman who "dresses in black" long after her lover's death.
* Music/TheBeatles recorded "Baby's in Black," about a man pining after a woman who "dresses in black" long after her lover's death.
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* Barbara Jagger from ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' wears widow's weeds, most likely in honour of her dead boyfriend, Thomas Zane.
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* Barbara Jagger from ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' wears widow's weeds, most likely in honour of her dead boyfriend, Thomas Zane.
Zane.
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* Parodied in ''SomethingPositive''. AttentionWhore Kharisma Valetti attends theatre bigwig Avagadro Pompey's funeral in an outfit consisting of a sheer negligée over black cloth bands which barely cover her private parts.
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* Parodied in ''SomethingPositive''. AttentionWhore Kharisma Valetti attends theatre bigwig Avagadro Pompey's funeral in an outfit consisting of a sheer negligée over black cloth bands which barely cover her private parts.
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* In the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' universe, Traders (Family-based merchant caravans that travel on land or sea) wear red when loved ones die. Daja eventually adopts a red armband in memory of her family, instead of wearing the all-red clothes all the time. She inspires Sandry to do the same with her black clothes.
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* In ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' when Dorothy's crossdressing brother dies several heavily veiled, black wearing, women appear at the funeral. They were [[WholesomeCrossdresser the guys from his]] poker night.
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Not only at the [[DuetotheDead funeral service]], but also any time she is [[GraveMarkingScene visiting his grave]], a woman in mourning is shown wearing a black dress and/or a black hat with a veil. Usually this is the widow of the deceased, but it can be other close female relatives as well, such as his mother, sister, or daughter. Main/SpearCounterpart is a man wearing a black armband to show mourning, since men wear black suits in other contexts as well.
According to ThatOtherWiki, black clothing and veils were colloquially called "widow's weeds" during the Victorian era, from the Old English word "waed," meaning "garment."
Not to be confused with BlackWidow. Compare WomanInBlack, but this is more specific and less vampy.
In other cultures, the traditional color of mourning may be other than black.
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* ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'': In a "what if" FantasySequence, Melody is persuading Alan M to let Josie help out more, instead of playing macho and doing it all himself. She describes a future in which Alan M and Josie are married, and Alan M works himself into an early grave trying to support her. "Before long, Josie is buying a dress she hadn't planned for." Josie is pictured in a black veil, shopping for the dress to wear to his funeral, while a sales clerk observes, "Basic black? We've been selling a lot of those lately."
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* In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', a grieving mother angrily confronts an official because he didn't close the beach, and now her son is dead. She is wearing a black hat with a veil.
* Averted in ''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Still the Beaver]]'', a Main/MadeForTVMovie showing June talking to Ward's grave, but not wearing a black dress or a veil.
* In ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'', Miriam wears this as a part of the robbers' scheme to persuade the conductor that her supposedly deceased husband's coffin may travel inside the train's secure vault.
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. While Franchise/JamesBond is watching the funeral of [[spoiler:SPECTRE agent Colonel Jacques Bouvar]], he sees that [[spoiler:Bouvar's]] widow is wearing a black dress, hat and veil. Then he realizes that [[spoiler:the widow isn't a woman at all...but a man, baby!]]
* Scarlett O'Hara ends up burying two husbands in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' and wears mourning on both occasions.
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* Creator/LFrankBaum's [[Literature/TheWizardOfOz Oz series]]
** In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', Dorothy thinks she has to go back because they can't afford mourning, among other reasons. ''"My greatest wish now,"'' she added, ''"is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it."''
** In ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/420/420-h/420-h.htm Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz]]'', Dorothy sees, in the magic mirror, Uncle Henry and Auntie Em in mourning, thinking she had been killed in the earthquake.
* In Creator/CharlesDickens's ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', after Dora's death, at one point David is asked about his mourning armband and informs the questioner that it was his wife who died.
* ''Literature/LittleWomen'' by Louisa May Alcott:
** At a visit to Aunt March's, Amy is shown her jewelry, including "the jet mourning rings and pins." (Jet is black, the only color of jewelry allowed to be worn during mourning.)
** When Laurie and Amy meet again in Europe, it is shortly after Beth's death. Laurie notes how poignant Amy looks, partly because of her mourning and "the black ribbon that tied up her hair."
* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/IceCrown'', the heroine dreams of the court after the king's death. Another character realizes it was a true vision because she described the (heavily purple) formal mourning, which she has never seen.
* In Creator/DorothyLSayers's Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel ''Unnatural Death'', a lawyer definitely realizes that a woman who asked him a question -- for a friend -- had actually asked for herself, when he sees her again, and she tells him that the woman she had asked about, purported a friend's great-aunt, had died, and she herself is wearing mourning.
* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}, it is hinted that female graduates of the Guild of Assassins wear widow's weeds for advertising purposes.
* In the Literature/{{Deryni}} novels by KatherineKurtz, the widowed Queen Jehana wears all white (suitable to royal widows) for several years after her husband's death. Her quasi-nunlike apparel is also a form of protest against her son's open use of magic and his close relationships with other mages.
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* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Regina starts wearing black after the death of her husband and "kept it" as she went public with being "the Evil Queen," saying [[WomanInBlack it suited her.]]
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* "Long Black Veil" originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. The woman mourning for her deceased lover, who died for a crime he did not commit rather than to expose their affair, wears the long black veil while visiting his grave.
* "Ballad of Forty Dollars" by Tom T. Hall. A man watching from a distance, but not actually attending his friend's funeral, hints at a desire to [[ComfortingTheWidow comfort the widow]] when he sees how attractive she is. He notes:
-->That must be the widow in the car
-->And would you take a look at that?
-->That sure is a pretty dress
-->You know, some women do look good in black
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-->He's not even in the ground
-->And they say that his truck is up for sale
-->They say she took it pretty hard
-->But you can't tell too much behind the veil
* Music/CarrieUnderwood sings "Two Black Cadillacs" about the funeral of a man who had left both a wife and a lover. One line in the refrain mentions how "the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry."
* Music/TheMarsVolta: Referenced in a hypothetical context in "Cassandra Gemini."
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* Walter de la Mare's [[http://www.wisdomcriethwithout.com/a-widows-weeds-by-walter-de-la-mare/ Widow's Weeds]] puns on the trope. ''A poor old Widow in her weeds/Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds''
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* In ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'', Olivia wears a black dress and veil due to the recent loss of her brother.
* In ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'', Jack wears full mourning dress when he announces the [[spoiler:imaginary]] death [[spoiler:of his imaginary brother Ernest. Almost immediately, Algernon turns up pretending to be Ernest, and comments on what ugly clothes Jack has on.]]
* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'': Gloria Capulet wears this during Juliet's [[spoiler:staged]] funeral.
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* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', *Mute describes doing this when a dear friend of hers passed away.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', the [[TarotMotifs Death]] Social Link is Hisano Kuroda, an old woman who always wears black mourning outfit. The Social Link revolves around helping her get over her husband's death.
* Never explicitly noted, but heavily implied with Almedha in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]]''. Almedha was once a [[UnholyMatrimony concubine of the Mad King Ashnard]], Path of Radiance's BigBad, and became queen dowager of Daein in the aftermath of the Mad King's War. She dresses in dark robes, is almost always seen with her veil up, and is noted to be [[BrokenBird quite fragile as an effect of all she's suffered through]], to point of going the GodSaveUsFromTheQueen route [[KnightTemplarParent for the sake of her beloved]] [[spoiler:false]] [[KnightTemplarParent son]]. Ironic considering that Ashnard never felt anything for her or their child (especially since it was discovered that their [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Dragon Branded child]] possessed no powers Ashnard could use to further his own ends).
* Barbara Jagger from ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' wears widow's weeds, most likely in honour of her dead boyfriend, Thomas Zane.
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* Victorian tradition gives details for how a widow is expected to dress after her husband's death, and for how long. To cease wearing mourning too soon was a sign of promiscuity.
* Jackie Kennedy Onassis at JFK's funeral.
* Updated at the Creator/MichaelJackson funeral with the women wearing dark glasses instead of a veil. The purpose is the same, to obscure the face and hide teary eyes.
According to ThatOtherWiki, black clothing and veils were colloquially called "widow's weeds" during the Victorian era, from the Old English word "waed," meaning "garment."
Not to be confused with BlackWidow. Compare WomanInBlack, but this is more specific and less vampy.
In other cultures, the traditional color of mourning may be other than black.
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[[AC:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'': In a "what if" FantasySequence, Melody is persuading Alan M to let Josie help out more, instead of playing macho and doing it all himself. She describes a future in which Alan M and Josie are married, and Alan M works himself into an early grave trying to support her. "Before long, Josie is buying a dress she hadn't planned for." Josie is pictured in a black veil, shopping for the dress to wear to his funeral, while a sales clerk observes, "Basic black? We've been selling a lot of those lately."
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* In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', a grieving mother angrily confronts an official because he didn't close the beach, and now her son is dead. She is wearing a black hat with a veil.
* Averted in ''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Still the Beaver]]'', a Main/MadeForTVMovie showing June talking to Ward's grave, but not wearing a black dress or a veil.
* In ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'', Miriam wears this as a part of the robbers' scheme to persuade the conductor that her supposedly deceased husband's coffin may travel inside the train's secure vault.
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. While Franchise/JamesBond is watching the funeral of [[spoiler:SPECTRE agent Colonel Jacques Bouvar]], he sees that [[spoiler:Bouvar's]] widow is wearing a black dress, hat and veil. Then he realizes that [[spoiler:the widow isn't a woman at all...but a man, baby!]]
* Scarlett O'Hara ends up burying two husbands in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' and wears mourning on both occasions.
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* Creator/LFrankBaum's [[Literature/TheWizardOfOz Oz series]]
** In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', Dorothy thinks she has to go back because they can't afford mourning, among other reasons. ''"My greatest wish now,"'' she added, ''"is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it."''
** In ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/420/420-h/420-h.htm Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz]]'', Dorothy sees, in the magic mirror, Uncle Henry and Auntie Em in mourning, thinking she had been killed in the earthquake.
* In Creator/CharlesDickens's ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', after Dora's death, at one point David is asked about his mourning armband and informs the questioner that it was his wife who died.
* ''Literature/LittleWomen'' by Louisa May Alcott:
** At a visit to Aunt March's, Amy is shown her jewelry, including "the jet mourning rings and pins." (Jet is black, the only color of jewelry allowed to be worn during mourning.)
** When Laurie and Amy meet again in Europe, it is shortly after Beth's death. Laurie notes how poignant Amy looks, partly because of her mourning and "the black ribbon that tied up her hair."
* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/IceCrown'', the heroine dreams of the court after the king's death. Another character realizes it was a true vision because she described the (heavily purple) formal mourning, which she has never seen.
* In Creator/DorothyLSayers's Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel ''Unnatural Death'', a lawyer definitely realizes that a woman who asked him a question -- for a friend -- had actually asked for herself, when he sees her again, and she tells him that the woman she had asked about, purported a friend's great-aunt, had died, and she herself is wearing mourning.
* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}, it is hinted that female graduates of the Guild of Assassins wear widow's weeds for advertising purposes.
* In the Literature/{{Deryni}} novels by KatherineKurtz, the widowed Queen Jehana wears all white (suitable to royal widows) for several years after her husband's death. Her quasi-nunlike apparel is also a form of protest against her son's open use of magic and his close relationships with other mages.
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Regina starts wearing black after the death of her husband and "kept it" as she went public with being "the Evil Queen," saying [[WomanInBlack it suited her.]]
[[AC:Music]]
* "Long Black Veil" originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. The woman mourning for her deceased lover, who died for a crime he did not commit rather than to expose their affair, wears the long black veil while visiting his grave.
* "Ballad of Forty Dollars" by Tom T. Hall. A man watching from a distance, but not actually attending his friend's funeral, hints at a desire to [[ComfortingTheWidow comfort the widow]] when he sees how attractive she is. He notes:
-->That must be the widow in the car
-->And would you take a look at that?
-->That sure is a pretty dress
-->You know, some women do look good in black
--->Later,
-->He's not even in the ground
-->And they say that his truck is up for sale
-->They say she took it pretty hard
-->But you can't tell too much behind the veil
* Music/CarrieUnderwood sings "Two Black Cadillacs" about the funeral of a man who had left both a wife and a lover. One line in the refrain mentions how "the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry."
* Music/TheMarsVolta: Referenced in a hypothetical context in "Cassandra Gemini."
[[AC:Poetry]]
* Walter de la Mare's [[http://www.wisdomcriethwithout.com/a-widows-weeds-by-walter-de-la-mare/ Widow's Weeds]] puns on the trope. ''A poor old Widow in her weeds/Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds''
[[AC:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'', Olivia wears a black dress and veil due to the recent loss of her brother.
* In ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'', Jack wears full mourning dress when he announces the [[spoiler:imaginary]] death [[spoiler:of his imaginary brother Ernest. Almost immediately, Algernon turns up pretending to be Ernest, and comments on what ugly clothes Jack has on.]]
* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'': Gloria Capulet wears this during Juliet's [[spoiler:staged]] funeral.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', *Mute describes doing this when a dear friend of hers passed away.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', the [[TarotMotifs Death]] Social Link is Hisano Kuroda, an old woman who always wears black mourning outfit. The Social Link revolves around helping her get over her husband's death.
* Never explicitly noted, but heavily implied with Almedha in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]]''. Almedha was once a [[UnholyMatrimony concubine of the Mad King Ashnard]], Path of Radiance's BigBad, and became queen dowager of Daein in the aftermath of the Mad King's War. She dresses in dark robes, is almost always seen with her veil up, and is noted to be [[BrokenBird quite fragile as an effect of all she's suffered through]], to point of going the GodSaveUsFromTheQueen route [[KnightTemplarParent for the sake of her beloved]] [[spoiler:false]] [[KnightTemplarParent son]]. Ironic considering that Ashnard never felt anything for her or their child (especially since it was discovered that their [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Dragon Branded child]] possessed no powers Ashnard could use to further his own ends).
* Barbara Jagger from ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' wears widow's weeds, most likely in honour of her dead boyfriend, Thomas Zane.
[[AC:Real Life]]
* Victorian tradition gives details for how a widow is expected to dress after her husband's death, and for how long. To cease wearing mourning too soon was a sign of promiscuity.
* Jackie Kennedy Onassis at JFK's funeral.
* Updated at the Creator/MichaelJackson funeral with the women wearing dark glasses instead of a veil. The purpose is the same, to obscure the face and hide teary eyes.
