mourning dress

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Funeral Etiquette by Mark Twain

Do not criticize the person in whose honor the entertainment is given...


Do not bring your dog.



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Thanks for posting that. I had never red it, and it brought a chuckle.

Although mourning tartans might these days be seen by some as a bit de trop, a 19th Century affectation aimed at the then-newly affluent middle class, I rather think they are a worthy idea, and if I did not have other robes that are almost always more appropriate for funerals and memorial services, and if there was a Robertson or Gilmore mourning tartan, I would probably have one on hand for such occasions, which, as we grow older, come more and more often. Of course I am from the American South, where we still take funerals as more of an event than do some others.