What The Colour Of Dress You Wear On Valentine Day Signifies

If you’ve got no idea what the ‘Valentine’s day dress code’ means, then you’re not alone.

‘What on earth’ I asked my editor this morning, ‘is a Valentine’s day dress code?’

My personal Valentine’s day dress code is going to involve wearing sweatpants cooking an M&S dine for two. Possibly with some slutty pants on underneath. Maybe.

But in fact, the Valentine’s day dress code doesn’t refer to putting on a pair of clean pants, or even to googling whether or not you can get away with wearing flip-flops to a restaurant.

The Valentine’s day dress code is apparently a colour key that discloses your ‘status’ on Valentine’s day.

Each colour secretly equates to a message, and if you know the code you can interpret what the other person is trying to tell you through the medium of their clothes.

So if your other half turns up wearing orange and you’ve decided to rock a little black dress, you’re in trouble. On the upside, if someone is wearing blue and you’re in green, you’re on to a winner.

It’s unclear where this idea started, but the biggest flaw we can see it in (apart from the fact that we have actual words to say these things, so we don’t need a colour code) is that not all of the colour keys seem to match up.

Red is universally a no go area, and orange seems to mean a proposal across the board, but I’ve been green masquerading as waiting, interested and in a relationship.

It’s unclear where this phenomenon, popular with mums and grannies on Facebook, came from.

Obviously more anthropological research needs to be done on the birth places of memes.

What is clear is that it’s obviously completely made up and has literally no bearing on anything.

But, if you do want to be on the safe side you’ve got two options.

Wear a multicoloured print, or, y’know, skip the entire thing and spend v-day naked.

Metro

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