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Updated: June 27, 2025
In those days, hatbands, gloves and scarves were provided by the bereaved family to the relatives and friends who attended the obsequies; and all of kinship close or remote, were invited from far and near.
All the men and maids of the house, the old women of the Alms House, whom the elder Sir Pitt had cheated out of a great portion of their due, the parish clerk's family, and the special retainers of both Hall and Rectory were habited in sable; added to these, the undertaker's men, at least a score, with crapes and hatbands, and who made goodly show when the great burying show took place but these are mute personages in our drama; and having nothing to do or say, need occupy a very little space here.
He may die in debt, and yet "society" does not quit its hold of him until he is laid in his grave. He must be buried as "society" is buried. He must have a fashionable funeral. He must, to the last, bear witness to the power of Mrs. Grundy. It is to please her, that the funeral cloaks, hatbands, scarves, mourning coaches, gilded hearses, and processions of mutes are hired.
'Will you take your own carriage, sir, or a mourning coach? 'A mourning coach at fourteen miles an hour, with two pair of horses! Jonathan, you're crazy. 'Will you please to have black silk hatbands and gloves for the coachman and servants who attend you, sir? 'Confound your shop! no; this is a resurrection, not a death: it appears that the negro thinks only one of the boats went down.
Wilbur had been a little disappointed that the cowboy should not have shown up as ornamentally as he had expected, not wearing goatskin "chaps" or rattlesnake hatbands, and not even having a gorgeous saddle-blanket on his pony, but the boy felt partly rewarded when he saw him just put his toe in the stirrup and seem to float into the saddle.
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