#8

I’ve got a course tomorrow. External but all the delegates are internal. Dress is casual. Shorts?

#9

I’d just wear a shirt and tie because you’re never going to actually wear the jacket, but if you’re worried just take it to carry it around.

Alternatively, could you just wear a black shirt (if you’re going for traditional black funeral attire) and no tie.

#10

There are no rights and wrongs at funerals really are there.

#11

Yeah I think people are ultimately far more concerned with grieving and remembering then how people are dressed.

#12

Yeah so long as you’re smartly/respectfully dressed I’d say that was ok. Been to a fair few these last few years and dress codes seem to be much less of a thing than they were.

(In answer to the OP going without a jacket is absolutely fine but of course it depends on whose funeral it is and what their family are like above all else)

#13

My wife’s family still talk about her uncle turning up to her dad’s funeral in jeans.

#15

Think you should err on the side of caution, I went to a funeral a few years ago where a few people made a point of wearing casual clothes because ‘it is what he would have wanted’ and it just seemed wrong

#16

Yeah, it’s really petty but I have memories of a friends husband turning up to our mates funeral in jeans and have had a dim opinion of him ever since.

#17

Think funerals might be the only time it’s not tory to wear a suit

#18

My Dad told me about his friends funeral where everyone wore striped socks and bright colours because that’s how he always dressed. I saw a group photo of everyone from the funeral (edit: OOPS) and my Dad was the ONLY one wearing black. To be fair, he was just wearing his normal clothes :laughing: It was really nice anyway.

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#19

He’s going to a funeral, not working in a cocktail bar (sorry for your loss, lopes)

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#20

I’ve often worn black jeans to a funeral

#21

Sorry for you loss @Lo-Pan

I’ve never been to a funeral, is that weird?

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#22

My uncle wore a hawiian shirt to my grandads funeral and no one said anything or thought it was weird, cos he always wears shirts like that

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#23

Hmmm I guess so, that being said I know a couple of folk that have never been.

#24

I’m wearing a jacket

#25

Not weird at all.

I’ve been to many now, and not one of them has been of a ‘they lived a good life and lived to a ripe old age’ sort. They’ve all been reminders of the cruelty of life in their own ways.

#26

Yeah I’ve always found this too. It’s rarely a celebration of that person’s life despite everybody’s best intentions. I’ve been to far too many funerals for somebody my age I would say.

#27

Sorry Lopes, probably shouldn’t be discussing this in your thread. Sorry for your loss my man. X

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#28

Yeah there’s no pattern to it is there. Mate of mine, about 5 years ago he had a run whereby in one year by the end of April he’d been to 5 funerals. It never rains…

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