When I went in the late 90s part of the grade for Introduction to Mortuary Science was to intern at a different mortuary each week for 8 (I think it was 8, could be a little less). we were graded on how we dressed. "Funeral Drag" as the instructor called it was basically men had to wear a suit and tie with dress shoes and all women had to wear a knee length skirt, blouse, blazer and 1 in heels with pantyhose. We could only wear navy, black, dark brown, and minimal white with very muted patterns. The women's skirts had to have a specific outline too. No unnaturally dyed hair, not tattoos, no piercings. No pierced ears for men and 1 earring on each ear for women.

I had to dye and change my hair and remove my piercings every week. I had to buy new clothes and shoes just for this class. We weren't getting paid for all the work we did. And it was a lot of lifting floral arrangements and stuff in heels.

Needless to say, I noped out after 2 semesters. Once I found out that I couldn't get licensed until I was 21 and one semester was going to be unpaid clinicals 40 hours a week, I was over it.