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re: Does no one dress up for funerals anymore?
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:03 pm to prplhze2000
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:03 pm to prplhze2000
I do but have seen people at funerals in t shirts and jeans. One guy had a t shirt that had a picture of a cat and said Ask me about my pussy.
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Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:22 pm to prplhze2000
The first one I went to for one of my parents Temple Baptist friends here in Ruston, I wore a gray suit. I think I was the only person, other than the ministers and funeral home employees that was dressed in a suit. My dad just wore a sport coat with a shirt and slacks, with no tie. He looked overdressed compared to the majority of men there.
Another one at a Methodist church in West Monroe was around half and half, with one guy in a leather motorcycle racing pants and top. I'm talking one that had sponsor's logo's on it. My mom said he was the lady's ex-husband. Can you imagine?
My mom said it's because the funerals were in the middle of the day during the week. She said they came from work. With as many professions out there that don't require wearing a coat and tie anymore, I guess that makes sense. I thought all of the other Sunday School class members would be in coat and tie anyway. I thought church is probably the only thing those 70 and 80 year olds still dress up for. I haven't been to a funeral since before Covid.
Another one at a Methodist church in West Monroe was around half and half, with one guy in a leather motorcycle racing pants and top. I'm talking one that had sponsor's logo's on it. My mom said he was the lady's ex-husband. Can you imagine?
My mom said it's because the funerals were in the middle of the day during the week. She said they came from work. With as many professions out there that don't require wearing a coat and tie anymore, I guess that makes sense. I thought all of the other Sunday School class members would be in coat and tie anyway. I thought church is probably the only thing those 70 and 80 year olds still dress up for. I haven't been to a funeral since before Covid.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:27 pm to chinese58
no one has any since of decency, class, or respect anymore, I always wear a suit or at least slacks, jacket and tie for funerals, it's a matter of respect
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:33 pm to prplhze2000
I do not understand this either? Our WW2 uncle passed and even one of my 63 ( at the time) Cousins didn’t have a sport coat on, I’m from that generation but much younger and I had to shame him on it.
I wonder how many people under fifty even own a suit or sport coats today?
I wonder how many people under fifty even own a suit or sport coats today?
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:38 pm to NoSaint
quote:Hand-me-downs!
Feels like you could recycle that blazer about 6 times over. So not THAT pricy
My oldest brother got them from a couple of older cousins. When he outgrew them my middle brother got them, Sometimes he and I split them. My oldest brother is four years older. My middle brother was 18 months older. We had some new clothes, but most of our everyday stuff were hand-me-downs thru elementary school. Our kid's suits and coat game was on point. We looked sharp on Sunday mornings, but if you looked thru pictures, you'd see we were wearing the same suit the older brother wore a couple of years before.
We wore new clothes until we wore them out. My mom would iron patches in the knees of my jeans. As a kid playing in the woods of Concordia Parish, I never thought twice about how they looked.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:41 pm to chinese58
Oh lord,
Not to distract from the topic but you just described my family! Our parents were children of parents who went through the Great Depression and yes. Patches, shoe goo and as the youngest I got all those hand me downs.
Money didn’t matter our parents were scarred from the Great Depression.
Not to distract from the topic but you just described my family! Our parents were children of parents who went through the Great Depression and yes. Patches, shoe goo and as the youngest I got all those hand me downs.
Money didn’t matter our parents were scarred from the Great Depression.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:42 pm to prplhze2000
How dare you pick on me. I paid good money for these jeans, PFG shirt, Redwings, and costas you see hanging on the back of my neck.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:43 pm to prplhze2000
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It's called fricking respect.
As I insinuated, it really does depend on the person. In general, I agree with what you are saying, but as I and others mentioned, there are people from certain places where the norm is different.
I think in areas where the majority of the people used to be poor and their sunday best wasn't suits they couldn't afford. It was the nice clothes they could afford, but I have been to a funeral where the norm is people wearing their "good jeans" and boots and the richest person in the building had a regular pair of jeans, a polo shirt with the logo of the contracting company he owns on it and a hat he took off when he entered the room the body was in.
There are instances when respect is in the hands of the beholders so to speak.
But there are ways people can dress that is completely disrespectful everywhere. Basically anything that draws attention to yourself in away people are thinking "what the hell is this person doing?". Example, people who dress extremely goth or some shite.
But at just about every funeral there will be at least one person with a gut with a button down that's too tight that it doesn't quit tuck in their pants in the front. There will be that one person with a button up that's too big for them that doesn't look ironed because no matter how many times they try to tuck as much as possible in, it keeps coming out and starts to wrinkle.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:46 pm to prplhze2000
I believe they still do in small towns at least they do where I'm from. Heck people still still pull over when the funeral procession drives by. It's called respect. The good old days.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 3:49 pm to BabyTac
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The work from home culture and those that support it has ruined America.
Do you ever get tired of saying hyperbolic dumb shite?
Posted on 5/6/23 at 4:04 pm to prplhze2000
When you reach your 40’s you have a lot of aging family members between parents, aunts, and uncles. Just bought a new suit a few months ago to prepare for the next 10-20 years.
Posted on 5/6/23 at 5:04 pm to prplhze2000
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Am at one about to start. Only two of us wearing suits or sportcoats.
I buried my mom and my brother in the latter half of 2022. I couldn't care less what anyone wore to the funeral or wake. I just appreciated them for showing up. I wore a suit, though. And a lot of people either wore suits/sportscoats or at least slack and a dress shirt (which I think is appropriate. I also tend to wear a jacket for funerals I attend but not necessarily if I am just going for the wake/visitation.
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