Modern women have and love black clothes, but it wasn’t always like that.
"Black was traditionally the colour of mourning and it was considered a shockingly risque choice of colour for any self-respecting woman. When John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Madame X was first shown to the Paris Salon in 1884, with subject, Madame Pierre Gautreu, wearing a revealing black satin dress with jewelled straps, it caused outrage…