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Miss Manners: How can I put on denims and a T-shirt if my husband is useless?

Editorial Board Published April 14, 2025
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband is dying. I’ve fixated on a silly subject, most likely as a result of I don’t wish to think about life with out him: What does a widow put on?

The thought of carrying denims and T-shirts as if every part is regular feels weird.

Is there a technique to sign mourning? A black armband?

Silly fear, I do know, but it surely’s already laborious to work together with cheery strangers. How can I sign my disappointment?

GENTLE READER: The Victorians did us a disservice by overdoing the present of bereavement to the purpose the place individuals received uninterested in residing in mandated symbolic gloom — lengthy durations of carrying black and forgoing social occasions, even for kin they didn’t miss — and overthrew the entire system.

As traditional, this led to the other excessive: the expectation of a fast return to regular life. Those that prod the bereaved to “achieve closure” little notice the ache they’re inflicting.

So sure, some small signal can be good to warn off those that count on you to be jolly. Carrying all black is an possibility, though that is still an indication of mourning primarily at funerals of nationwide significance. Black being thought of stylish, it will also be discovered at weddings.

So you can put on a black armband, though it might appeal to extra consideration than you need. As one other chance, Miss Manners suggests a small black ribbon on the lapel or neckline.

You want clarify these solely by saying, “I’m in mourning,” which can be repeated with extra emphasis if this elicits greater than an expression of sympathy.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Would you contemplate it impolite to deliver an extra dish to a dinner if it wasn’t requested?

That is for an Easter dinner, so it’s a meal wherein the dishes are supposed to be particular. After I requested what I may contribute, I used to be requested to deliver a aspect. I’m very happy to do that, however I’m additionally impressed to make a yummy dessert!

I actually take pleasure in baking, and I do know that the dessert the host is making is far more about presentation than taste (suppose an Easter-item-shaped dessert utilizing prepackaged components).

It’s tremendous, it’s cute, and I don’t wish to take away from it. My child will adore it. However it gained’t be significantly fulfilling for the adults to eat.

Would it not be OK to indicate up with an additional do-it-yourself dessert and simply say I had the time and needed an excuse to make one thing particular? It by no means hurts to have an additional for a vacation meal, proper?

GENTLE READER: No. Since you are proper to suspect that the benevolence of giving doesn’t defend you from different transgressions. And usurping the menu plan can be one.

Miss Manners might need prompt you ask the host whether or not one other dessert can be welcome — in the event you hadn’t given your self away. However you made it clear that you simply wish to present up your host by offering the grownup company with one thing you deem superior.

That isn’t beneficiant.

Please respect your host’s makes an attempt to please company, regardless of how significantly better you suppose you’d have carried out.

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