What do you think a 6 year old girl should wear to a funeral?

[MrsRogerSterling]

My Granny died last week, the funeral is this week and dd1 is coming with me. What should she wear? She has dresses but nothing black or even navy. She has black tights and knee boots. Should I buy her a black dress? Would you expect a child to wear black at a funeral. If so can anyone find a dress that I can go out and buy tomorrow? She has this and most of her other dresses sweater or summer dresses.

I don't think children need to be in black at a funeral. I would put her in a nice dress - though obvs not a party frock!

I was going to say a nice pretty dress too. I agree that children don't need to be in black.

I don't the one you linked is fine.

Sorry for your loss by the way.

It doesn't need to be black but she might feel out of place in anything too bright. There are some nice things in the shops if you feel up to shopping, maybe something like this?

Sorry to hear about your Granny.

I don't think anyone would expect navy or black necessarily. I know when my Dad died, the grandchildren wore 'something nice', whatever was their 'best'. And they all looked appropriate. Added a nice bit of colour to a sad occasion, sort of reminded us to celebrate his life.

School uniform?

Definitely not black for a child, the dress you linked looks lovely, hope it all goes well.

Just a nice dress, the one you linked to is fine. Sorry for your loss.

Sorry for your loss.
Something like this might be nice and useful after too, plus you can do a click and collect for ease.

Sorry to hear that. Not black (I'd even say that even / especially if she had a black dress already) just something smart.

I agree that children are not really expected to wear black for a funeral. I would say anything as long as it not jeans (although I would say dark jean are ok for a boy) if you want to get something in a darker colour then this would be good in either navy spot or black and white stripe

Sorry for your loss. I don't think you need black personally, but if the dress you linked is the bright pink 'fun jersey dress' i wouldn't put her in that either. Sorry. I would go with a plainer more muted dress. Like this with a long sleeved t-shirt under and a cardi over with some navy tights and dark shoes.

Oh i really like the one TreTops linked actually.

DD (4) went to the funeral of a close family member a couple of weeks ago, she wore this from John Lewis. Everybody commented on how lovely she looked. TBH smart and neat is good enough. And WARM, the church was very cold and there was quite a bit of hanging about outside. I put a long sleeve t under this dress.

Thanks everyone, I'm glad it doesn't need to be black as on children it's not a colour I would choose. I am in town tomorrow and think I will have a look at the stripy dress TreTops suggested.

That's a lovely dress EspressoMonkey

At a family funeral a few years ago, many of the children wore some variation of their school uniforms - since that was smart and dark.

anything she wants!

At my mum's funeral my DS wore a kilt (in Scotland) and his friends wore their uniform, girls and boys.

I wouldn't necessarily go down the black route, a nice dress is fine.

Sorry for your loss.