Stylish for a funeral - not black

[springbabydays]

Any ideas please I need inspiration! A dress would be nice. Am short and petite size 6/8.

In my experience, no-one notices what you wear for a funeral as long as it's dark-ish in colour and half decent. Have you been asked to wear something special?

It's a funeral?

Yes happy it's a funeral.

flo it's a close relative who was always stylish and colourful herself and I want to wear a nice outfit as a final tribute to her. If I'm wearing a dark colour then I want a flash of brightness too. We are very much celebrating a long fulfilling life as well as mourning.

Could you wear something like this?

With heels and a dark bag it could be appropriate for a funeral but still stylish and not totally black.

Thank you that is lovely, just the sort of shape that would suit me. How could I brighten it do you think? I have black shoes and bag, I'm thinking a cardi or shrug maybe? I'm so rubbish with accessories!

That's a really nice thing to do - hope someone will do think to do that for me one day.
I like the dress beanandspud has linked and you could easily wear it with some colour e.g. shoes/bag/belt/cardigan/necklace/earrings etc. Did your relative have a favourite colour that you could wear in her honour?

Well I am wearing a dress to mum's funeral (haven't got date yet). I have a few black and white numbers but might wer my navy dress with daisy trim and then a white linen jacket is it is chilly. This should have got an 'outing' to a graduation but it is not happening now.

I wore a black dress to my mothers funeral but had a red bag with one of her brightly coloured silk scarf's tied to it so it had a touch of her style. It's a silly thing but it made me feel she was with me.

You probably already have a black/grey/ navy dress. You could accesorise it in a way you think she'd have liked.

Firstly, I am sorry to hear about your friend's death and also Deathraystare's mum.

Would something like this be what you are thinking?

black&coral

Thank you everyone for your ideas it's given me a lot of options to think about. Hadn't thought of a scarf burnished

deathray I'm so sorry for your loss I'm glad you mentioned white, I wasn't sure it'd be an option but I guess it could be too.

Really appreciate everyone's input and links etc x

jimmy I shall be heading to John Lewis tomorrow to have a look!