WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The custom of wearing unadorned black clothing for mourning dates back at least to the Roman Empire, when the toga pulla, made of dark-colored wool, was worn during mourning.

Detailed explanation-2: -Going back millennia, many historians trace the very earliest tradition of wearing black at funerals to the Roman Empire . Citizens there would mark a person’s death by switching their normally white toga for a black one.

Detailed explanation-3: -The wearing of black clothing has been a long-accepted funeral tradition intended to show respect for the deceased. Wearing other colors is in fact seen as a major social faux pas, or an out and out slap in the face to mourning family members, regardless of how subdued or otherwise formal the offending clothing is.

Detailed explanation-4: -The family of someone who dies wears white mourning, in the hope that their loved ones are reborn again. The idea of white mourning, otherwise known as deuil blanc in French, was formed during the 16th century when white was worn by bereaved children and unmarried women.

Detailed explanation-5: -It is not written anywhere in the Bible about wearing black clothes at our relatives’ death and if we ignore it we do not sin, but we could convey people other message than we intended to.