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What is this outfit?
« on: Tuesday 31 October 06 15:14 GMT (UK) »
This is a photo of my great great great grandmother.  Can anyone tell me anything about the costume she was wearing.  She was from Heisker, North Uist.

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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 31 October 06 21:16 GMT (UK) »
I would have said it was a fairly normal short travelling cape over her dress, with a very fashionable (for the time) small hat.  I suspect it is all black, so she is likely to be widowed, if that's any help.  Nice weave to the material of the cape. 

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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 31 October 06 21:48 GMT (UK) »
I wasn't sure if it was an actual mourning outfit, but yesterday I saw another photo of someone else wearing something similar.  The person in the other photo looked a bit overly happy for it to be just after a funeral or anything!

Thanks for the help.

Do you think they would have been well off to afford these clothes, or did they make their own regardless of money?
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 31 October 06 21:57 GMT (UK) »
I have to say it does not look like your average outfit for a crofter's wife.  What was her husband's occupation?  It looks like she was well used to town life, but I could be wrong.  Perhaps it was her best outfit?

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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 31 October 06 22:29 GMT (UK) »
When I was a little girl I saw many old ladies dressed all in black with their little hats or bonnets.
Many of the older widows who had lost their husbands in the First World War or otherwise wore a black mourning outfit.  However, from what I can recall a good many widows who did not remarry - there was a comparative shortage of men in those days - appeared to wear black for the rest of their lives.  Most  would still have a 'Sunday best'  black outfit which the lady in the photo seems to be wearing.
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 16 November 06 21:39 GMT (UK) »
That outfit looks very Sunday Best to me. As you say Nell, that is a fine piece of cloth making up the cape.
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« Reply #6 on: Friday 17 November 06 06:46 GMT (UK) »
I have a picture of my GG grandmother wearing a very similar outfit and I have always thought it was probably her `sunday best`. I believe she also wore black for the rest of ther life as many did in those days.

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Re: What is this outfit?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 17 November 06 09:24 GMT (UK) »
Thanks

This lady was a crofter's widow.  I always thought that they wouldn't have been very well off, but the photo makes me think differently.  Also i know that she travelled to Canada from North uist at least once in her later life so she must have had some money!
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« Reply #8 on: Friday 17 November 06 09:29 GMT (UK) »
Photgraph shows her holding what looks like a letter in her left hand. Possibly picture was taken to send to relative far away?
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« Reply #9 on: Friday 17 November 06 09:36 GMT (UK) »
Or perhaps it could be a letter from someone in Canada....
A sort of,
'As soon as I got your letter I knew I must come to you,' photo
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« Reply #10 on: Sunday 19 November 06 16:29 GMT (UK) »
Never thought of that.  The photo was actually in the posessions of her son in New Zealand so it would make sense.
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