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While the little black dress first became popular in the 1920s when Coco Chanel made a modern-day adaptation, it first appeared in the Victorian era, when women used the garment to signify mourning.

In the Victorian era, widows were expected to wear black for one year after the death ... Over the next few decades, black became integrated into everyday wardrobes, especially as Gabrielle “Coco” ...