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I'm writing a screenplay where a mortician goes into dialogue with the people he's preparing for burial about the nature of life and their attitudes towards their death. I'm looking at four people to play the "dead" people - two older people (60+) and two younger people (20-30). Since part of the process is dressing them I want to make sure they're dressed at least semi accurately. I asked a friend of mine who works in a funeral home (we're in the US South) about it and she said:
"It's up to the family to decide. Formal clothing like suits for men or fancy dresses for women are still the most common but less so than in the past. I find that more formal clothing like suits or dresses is more frequently brought in the older the deceased is, and that shoes or footwear is brought more often when the deceased is male. In caskets younger people are more often wearing 'street clothes' and women frequently go barefoot or just wear hose or slippers".
Does that sound correct to anyone with more knowledge than me? Here are the outfits I have thought up with the actors:
Older man - Black suit, polished black office shoes
Older woman - White ladies skirt suit, hose and white shoes
Younger man - White button up shirt, jeans, loafers
Younger woman - Brown ruffled blouse, knee length brown skirt, barefoot
"It's up to the family to decide. Formal clothing like suits for men or fancy dresses for women are still the most common but less so than in the past. I find that more formal clothing like suits or dresses is more frequently brought in the older the deceased is, and that shoes or footwear is brought more often when the deceased is male. In caskets younger people are more often wearing 'street clothes' and women frequently go barefoot or just wear hose or slippers".
Does that sound correct to anyone with more knowledge than me? Here are the outfits I have thought up with the actors:
Older man - Black suit, polished black office shoes
Older woman - White ladies skirt suit, hose and white shoes
Younger man - White button up shirt, jeans, loafers
Younger woman - Brown ruffled blouse, knee length brown skirt, barefoot