[mountaineer]

Everyone wearing solid black

Any pastel sweater sets (tied around the shoulders, of course)?

[Miss Marple]

It would be interesting to know who the people are who designed the set and dictated the costumes, and their reasoning behind it.

Seems to me that the people of the general public (not the victims's survivors, of course) are wanting to participate in action, not grieving. Grieving was done at the National Cathedral. Now it is time to pull together and get to work.