Multiple etymologies have been proposed: it may derive from the Irish bróg ("shoe"), the type of shoe traditionally worn by the people of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands, and hence possibly originally meant "the speech of those who call a shoe a 'brogue'". Are brogues too casual? A...
A somewhat flippant response to attire and funerary events is the assumption that what you wear will clearly have no impact on the deceased, who is already gone. But how you dress will have an impact on the family of the deceased and anyone else present. Therefore, it will behoove you to...