“He is so very strange! Would anyone believe that when Tom’s wife died, he actually could not be induced to see the importance of the children’s having the deepest of trimmings to their mourning?”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 11. One of the toadies that hover around Miss Havisham in the hope of inhering her wealth is Mrs. Camilla. This satirical character of Dickens’s puts on an air of scandalized shock at the lack of attention paid to the clothing worn at a funeral. To the ridiculous Camilla, it’s as if it was the most important thing about the funeral.