UB, thanks for pointing us toward that thread from the past. I've now read the whole thing again, and my take from the one-sitting consumption, as opposed to my drib-and-drab reading the first time, is that there may or may not have been a loose or weak tradition, at least in some areas of the south, for black women to dress in red for funerals or mourning or both, but that it was nonexclusive, so they'd dress in red at other times as well, including when they felt like it.
A fair summary?
And by the way, isn't windbaggery what internet forums were invented for?
