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Guillermo del Toro’s spectacularly gorgeous gothic film “Crimson Peak” has wonderful Victorian & Edwardian era designs and symbolism, such as here where you can see the character of Edith Cushing wearing a clasped hands belt to signify Edith’s mourning of her dead mother. 

The clasped hands symbol was found on Victorian era gravestones such as this one I came across in Woodlawn Cemetery which dates from the 1870s. John and Martha Teller are the couple who rest here; their eternal bond is symbolized by the male and female clasped hands.

The costume designer Kate Hawley discusses her work on “Crimson Peak” in this interview in Elle magazine:

http://www.elle.com.au/culture/elle-interview/2016/2/elle-interview-kate-hawley/

More about the clasped hands symbol on gravestones here:

https://cemeterysymbolism.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/clasped-hands/