Is a Prince of Wales check suit too informal for a funeral?

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Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
Went to one funeral after a muddy bike ride and got changed into black jeans and raincoat behind a tree!

Was the deceased a cycling flasher?
 

Psamathe

Active Member
I think it depends on a large number of factors e.g. whose funeral and your relationship to them, how you regard funerals, attitudes of others attending.

I unfortunately had to go to my Mum's funeral late last year and I was the only person wearing jeans and a rugby shirt. Only one other person (one of her brothers) was not wearing a dark suit/formal subdued and he was in smart dark cords & jacket.

Different people have different attitudes to funerals. For me it was a ritual that would never be any help to me but for others it was an important opportunity. I did not wear jeans & rugby shirt as any sort of statement, just having retired 20 years ago I don't have a suit and I was not going to buy a suit specially for the event. My attire did not offend anybody and only comment was from her brother wearing cords & jacket who noted we were the only two not in suit/formal wear.

But funerals and attendees are all different so I'd find it impossible to make recommendations.

Ian
 

stephec

Legendary Member
Location
Bolton
I think everyone should turn up in exactly the garb that the deceased would associate with them.

A few years ago I was on the core volunteer team at our local parkrun when one of our longest serving members, who'd given a lot of time to parkrun, died.

As I knew her family well I asked about wearing our parkrun milestone t-shirts at the funeral and they seemed to be really pleased at being asked.

On the day there was a lot of different colours there to say goodbye.
 

Jameshow

Veteran
Was the deceased a cycling flasher?

No I was riding with clients on the morning pealed off and changed into cleaner clothes.

I went to a uncles funeral last year and forgot to find my dress shoes and the misses had gone to bed hours earlier, so I drove 4 hours to Glasgow in trainers and then bobbed into the nearest matterlan for some shoes and tie!!
 

Milkfloat

An Peanut
Location
Midlands
The last funeral I went to I was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt with a cycling top underneath and a builders hard hat on my head. All reflecting deeply personal times I shared with the deceased, I certainly was not dressed the most outlandishly. I think the answer of what to wear depends on a combination of respect for the deceased and the wishes of their family.
 

Yellow Fang

Legendary Member
Location
Reading
In assembly once, one of the teachers was saying how he had been to a funeral and was bothered to see a young man there wearing a Teddy Boy suit. He said something to one of the other chaps there, and he said that the young man did not have a lot of money and was probably wearing his best suit.
 

lazybloke

Considering a new username
Location
Leafy Surrey
What was the said persons wishes / personality?

That would guide me!

Went to one funeral after a muddy bike ride and got changed into black jeans and raincoat behind a tree!

But you turned up.
I feel a little bad that wife and I once went to a christening wearing jeans, t-shirts & sunglasses, and sporting extremely bad hangovers. Think we were late too.

You might guess, I'm not christened.
Strangely I am a godparent.
 
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