Palace issues dress code for mourners paying respects before royal urn

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Palace issues dress code for mourners paying respects before royal urn

 

  

BANGKOK, 31 October 2016 (NNT) – The Bureau of the Royal Household (BRH) has issued guidelines to the general public on appropriate dress for people who wish to enter the Grand Palace to pay their respects to the late King. 

The BRH has issued dress code guidelines for the general public who wish to enter the Dusit Maha Prasart Throne Hall in the Grand Palace to pay their respects to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej before the royal urn. 

Mourners are asked to wear black clothes, while hill tribe people can wear their traditional costumes, scouts should wear their uniform, and students should wear appropriate uniforms according to their institute’s guidance. 

Gentlemen should wear a black shirt with collar, black trousers, and black heel-covering shoes. Ladies are required to wear polite and not close-fitting clothing in black with a skirt or sarong with its hem below knee level, as well as black heel-covering shoes. The wearing of jeans and sleeveless shirt is strictly prohibited. 

The general public is now allowed to pay their respects to the late King before the royal urn within the Grand Palace from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. every day, except during royal funeral rites.

 

-- nnt 2016-10-31