Dark green to a funeral?

[Anonymous]

Last-minute thing. I don't own a black dress or any appropriate top to pair with black pants. I am plus size, so in-store shopping is out. I can technically skip the funeral (DH's work-related), but would like to go if at all possible. Dark green (between forest and black) is the most drab I have. Is it ok?

[Anonymous]

Totally fine. You don’t have to wear black, you just have to dress in a manner that is appropriately respectful, conservative, and somber.

[Anonymous]

And sorry for your loss

[Anonymous]

Totally fine.

[Anonymous]

You don’t have a white blouse to pair with black pants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don’t have a white blouse to pair with black pants?

No, I don't wear blouses (breasts). My work "uniform" is black pants with a knit, wrap top in a fun color. And google says white is inappropriate, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Dark green is totally fine. As is navy, gray, maroon - basically any dark color.

Sorry for your DH's loss and good of you to support him.

[Anonymous]

Green is 100% fine.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely fine.

[Anonymous]

It’s fine.

[Anonymous]

I wore a navy dress to my grandfather’s funeral recently. You’ll be fine in dark green.

[Anonymous]

Totally fine.

[Anonymous]

It is completely fine. White is also fine, what you want are mainly neutrals. Nothing too floral and happy.

But all the funerals I've been to in the last few years there has been a huge range of outfits. Some way more casual than you would probably consider wearing to a funeral.

A dark green dress is perfectly appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don’t have a white blouse to pair with black pants?

I don't work at Olive Garden, so no.

[Anonymous]

It's better than not going at all, and better than trying to put yourself through buying something.

But fwiw I attended a funeral about 5 years ago in a black dress with a dark maroon cardigan sweater. I actually took the sweater off even though it was cold because I felt out of place because everyone (yes, pretty much everyone, and it was a big funeral) was in only black. I didn't think all black to a funeral was a thing anymore and that any darker subdued color like navy or hunter green is fine, but not at that funeral it wasn't.