Have people at your work wear the following colors in one week:
- Monday: Orange (if one doesn’t have orange, then red is ok)
- Tuesday: Yellow
- Wednesday: Green
- Thursday: Purple (if no purple, then blue)
- Friday: Wild Card!
(Note how the colors progress through the rainbow through the week)
Yes, this is dorky, but c’mon, it’s fun! Or, at the very least, you could secretly do this and not let anyone at work know! I’ll post the story about how this idea came about in the comments.
Yesterday s question of the day at work was what is your favorite color in general, favorite color for a car, and favorite color to wear. One of my co-workers was saying (in a nice way) how I don t wear colors to work. Indeed a good part of my work wardrobe is pretty much in the grays and blacks. IMHO, standard for a guy. But I was kinda suprised to hear her say this, because I do have some bright colors. So I told her that next week I ll wear all colors every day. Then other co-workers got in on the conversation and decided to have fun by assigning the colors I am to wear every day next week (hence the list in this post). Once these colors got assigned, they were like, we ll do it too! So we wrote the colors up on our whiteboard. And now it s a color week! This would be fun for other people s workplace too. If you aren t able to assign next week as a color week, then by all means, find another week to do it. 🙂
This rang a bell with me, and I remembered reading about something like this in model Elyse Sewell’s blog. According to her, many citizens of Bangkok not only wear yellow on Mondays (to honor their king’s birthday), they have assigned colors to the rest of the week. I haven’t heard this independently confirmed, but here’s Elyse’s blog entry, with photos: http://elysesewell.livejournal.com/61104.html (it’s kind of cool to see everyone decked out!) Here’s a conversation Elyse had with a local: Aun: “Well, the King was born on a Monday, so we wear yellow shirts every week to honor his birthday.” Me: “Hey, that’s a pretty good idea. I’m going to start that trend up in America for the weekday of my birth. Get everybody to start wearing pink every Sunday.” Aun: “You were born on a Sunday? Then it would have to be red. A different color corresponds to every weekday: Red for Sunday. Yellow for Monday. Pink for Tuesday. Green for Wednesday. Orange for Thursday. Blue for Friday. Purple for Saturday.” Me: “Is that a Buddhist thing or a Thai thing?” Aun: I guess it’s Thai…wait…you don’t have that in America?”
Umm…No comment. But I just commented, so HA.
You know if you wear green on Thursday it means you’re gay, right? Or was it purple on Tuesday? I don’t remember, but I do remember that being a short-lived bit of nonsense back in junior high school. Well, there you have it … junior high … that explains everything.
ooh just like SPIRIT week before homecoming in High School! i definitely need to spice up the wardrobe from corporate black, grays and blues Americans are terrified of color for some reason
A little late, but I completed the color project last week: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22color+project%22&w=43926277%40N00&s=rec My friend and I have started another clothing challenge this week, too! Thanks, Matt, for the creative inspiration!