Remember Me ~

When I am Dead and In the Ground And all my Bones are Rotten… Remember Me when This you See Lest I should be Forgotten…
the Victorian people celebrated the lives of their beloved deceased by combining their hair into beautiful wreaths ~

~ Jewelry that contained bits of hair, 

a photograph 

or sentiment of the deceased

was worn in remembrance of them...

Widows would dress in 'Full Mourning' clothes

...for the full first year of their husband's departure ~

Families would often be photographed facing backwards ~

in respect for the belief that your face should not be seen during mourning ~

Strange, but comforting rituals  that have themselves, ...been laid to rest….
{photographs courtesy of Pinterest}
Blessed be!

Lori