When did people stop dressing up for funerals?

I wear a suit and tie, it should be business casual at the very least. Anything else is disrespectful imo.

Kind of depends on whose funeral it is tbh. A friend of mine died a few years ago and we all just agreed to not do the whole suit and tie thing.

Was the same at my granddaughters wedding. Sure, it was a smaller, southernish town but they're big enough to have a Wally world. I bet they sell sport jackets and ties at least. Even the grooms father didn't have a suit one, but I did and I was the bride's grandfather. Of course, after the reception dinner, the bridesmaids and groomsmen changed into jeans and a wedding-logo'd tee-shirt and I even took off my coat. They were kids and there was dancing so I can see that.

No one seems to think the couple will be looking at their wedding pictures for the rest of their lives. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned and it won't bother them, but I look at it as a matter of respect.

Condolences to you and yours. Try to focus on his life, not those people.

Because walmart. Not even kidding. E'rybody goes to walmart and no one cares how they look because it's the lowest common denominator.

That does sound very disrespectful. As far as I know, it's still expected for folks to show up 'presentable' for such an occasion. Not necessarily a full blown suit or whatever ... but geez, at least a pair of decent pants and a sport jacket for a guy and something equally as appropriate for a woman.

BTW, sorry for your loss.

In the South dressing up is still big/expected although some funerals especially really big ones during the week many aren't held up to a super exacting standard especially if the electrician or construction or whoever has to go right back to work. In those cases most bring a nice shirt to swap into but you may still catch some jeans and work boots.

The culture is changing. Many businesses don't require employees to have a suit jacket or tie, so why would they? I was born on the west coast 60 years ago, and only church-related activities required dressing nice. Even that eased off. When I first moved to the east coast, suit and tie was normal every day attire. Now, not so much. I do agree for things like funerals there is a lower limit, and it sounds like a few people slid in under the line, but for a lot of people, as long as the jeans are clean, and the only tears were intentionally done, that's formal.

The goths just took funeral attire too far, now it's circling back.

I understand folks that are hard up for cash but at least wear a collared shirt, most guys have at least 1 collared shirt for job interviews/weddings/funerals.

Gradual breakdown of culture and unity?

My grandfather died at 100 last year. We had a couple of the younger great grandchildren show up casually. I took them all aside and told them how they were dishonoring their great-great.

Blank stares.

It's all part of the degeneration of culture, responsibility, and respect in our society. Remember, we're all individuals and we not only should but we need to do whatever it is we want at all times, regardless of how anyone else feels about it, because we're not tied down by tradition any more--we're progressive.