hee hee hee I just found this pretty mourning dress and said to Rob "Hey perhaps we should go to Belvidere in Mourning this year" and he goes "why?" and I said, "mourning our freedom of course" ;-)

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/the_costume_institute/mourning_dress/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=51&sort=1&sortdir=asc&keyword=dress&fp=51&dd1=8&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=8&OID=80097085&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

but it is awfully pretty...and I have some black silk taffeta in the stash...