When one social media influencer posted videos and photos modeling a black funeral outfit, the internet was set on fire with offended viewers claiming the dress was “totally inappropriate,” but the critics seemed to miss one important detail.
A model for the apparel brand EdgyLittlePieces uploaded many TikTok videos featuring the brand’s “best-selling funeral dress.” According to New York Post, the influencer’s posts “horrified” social media users and generated a major backlash.
The “funeral dress” is a fitted halter mini-dress with big cutouts that reveal her cleavage and entire torso, with thin straps that crisscross down her neck, chest, and stomach. The model suggests how to wear the dress, noting that you may tighten the straps to make it “super modest for the funeral, then loosen it back down for the after-party.”
According to reports, the model appears to be joking with viewers in order to gain free publicity. Many TikTok users, however, were offended by the so-called funeral dress. When one of her followers asked for advice on a “funeral fit,” the model answered with a video of herself wearing the dress.
A bit inappropriate for a funeral,” one individual said.
“Is it me or does this seem disrespectful,” another person said.
“I mean the dress is [gorgeous] but not for a funeral,” another added.
The influencer responded to the critics, saying she had to disagree. “We’ve had so many girls wear this to funerals and they messaged us and said they got so many compliments,” the model said. “It’s super covered up, it doesn’t show any cleavage, and it’s super modest as well.”
If I put this on for a funeral I think I would get disowned,” one viewer wrote to the EdgyLittlePieces social media team.
“My uncle would raise from the dead if I turned up in that,” another said.
“The only funeral I can imagine wearing those to would be me sugar daddies,” one person joked.
“If I wore that to a funeral I would be the one in the coffin,” said another.
“If someone wears this for my funeral I will come back from the dead and take them with me,” someone quipped.
“I think she has it on backwards,” another joked.
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