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I'm at my grandfather's funeral today, and literally half the people there were wearing something I thought was completely inappropriate. One dude was wearing a fucking batman T-shirt and fucking jeans. My cousin was in a full blown cowboy get up complete with jeans, flannel, cowboy hat and boots with a giant ass belt buckle. Keep in mind this kid was born and raised in northern Michigan. He hasn't rode a horse a day in his life.

Now I'm not expecting everyone to show up in a suit and tie but to me, jeans are absolutely unacceptable funeral attire.
I'm at my grandfather's funeral today, and literally half the people there were wearing something I thought was completely inappropriate. One dude was wearing a fucking batman T-shirt and fucking jeans. My cousin was in a full blown cowboy get up complete with jeans, flannel, cowboy hat and boots with a giant ass belt buckle. Keep in mind this kid was born and raised in northern Michigan. He hasn't rode a horse a day in his life. Now I'm not expecting everyone to show up in a suit and tie but to me, jeans are absolutely unacceptable funeral attire.

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[–] ScorpioGlitch 4 points (+4|-0)

Because walmart. Not even kidding. E'rybody goes to walmart and no one cares how they look because it's the lowest common denominator.
[–] OeeThaGreat [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

But Wally world sells ties and button up shirts. I do agree that this is a decent explanation, but I still find it disrespectful.
[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0)

All you need to know

Whether you find it disrespectful or not, expense and cost is a barrier to classes of people whereby you can expect as a general rule certain behaviors, attitudes, cultural norms. Now granted, I know a fair amount of people who'd think it was perfectly respectable to show up in every day clothes but that's because of the family culture, the type of person it'd be for, and so on. But the point is that people just don't any more.

If you think it's disrespectful to point out that income class is a separator between cultural norms, I can't help you. But all you ever need to do is drive through any neighborhood in each income bracket to see that it's true. Heck, you don't even have to do that. Just look at income maps and compare it to crime maps. There's a correlation for a reason.
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