# The wearing of the green **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014 "2011-03-17T13:16:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/1 "2011-03-17T13:16:58Z")
A contrarian of Lithuanian descent, I never wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, except, some years, inadvertently. What’s your sartorial policy with regard to March 17th? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/2 "2011-03-17T13:20:39Z")
Green shirt, lucky boxers with shamrocks. This year I remembered! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/3 "2011-03-17T13:24:48Z")
I’m wearing a green polo today. I hate St. Patrick’s Day, but I’m not in the mood for an hour of, “Why aren’t you wearing green?” at work today. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/4 "2011-03-17T13:26:27Z")
I come from a large Boston Irish Catholic family, we tend to wear the green on St. Patrick’s day, habit I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/5 "2011-03-17T13:29:31Z")
Polish/Dutch gal working at an office where TPTB are Irish. Therefore, green sweater as camouflage. I used to work with a woman who was Welsh and proud of it, and on St. Paddy’s she always made sure to wear her red suit. It was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/6 "2011-03-17T13:30:17Z")
I don’t think I even own anything green. I suppose I could go roll around in the grass for a bit and see if that greens me up any. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/7 "2011-03-17T13:35:04Z")
I voted other. I’m not of Irish descent, and want to deliberately not wear green, but this morning it was only by accident that I didn’t. In my early morning, pre-caffeinated haze, I picked through my closet without even thinking about what today is, and avoided green. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/8 "2011-03-17T13:38:14Z")
I’d hoped to make it to noon w/o that [damn song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx2QclrRPA4) from 10th grade choir in my head, but OH NO you couldn’t let me, could you?? Now I’ll be meeting w/ Napper Tandy all damn day. I voted in yer stinkin’ poll, too. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/9 "2011-03-17T13:40:43Z")
It’s weird, I’m not Catholic anymore, I don’t pay any mind to that part of my history… but it still bugs me to see someone wear orange on St. Patrick’s day. Must be all the stories from childhood about the Orange Order and what they did to my family way back when. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/10 "2011-03-17T13:44:36Z")
I’m mostly Irish, and am wearing my green Guinness rugby shirt today. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/11 "2011-03-17T13:51:26Z")
I do have some Irish ancestry, but A) I also have ancestry from a zillion other places and if I wore their colours on every national holiday I’d have to have a spreadsheet, B) St. Patrick’s Day is stupid bullshit, and C) The only nationality I care about is that I’m Canadian. I was born here, I’m a Canadian citizen, and that is that. I wear red on Canada Day. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/12 "2011-03-17T13:57:55Z")
I think I have a spot of Irish ancestry in there somewhere but it’s not really that important to me, so I marked “not of Irish ancestry” in the poll. I think this “holiday” is insufferably twee and usually forget about it entirely until someone jokingly asks me where my green is and threatens to pinch me, at which point I give them the “try it and you’re losing a hand” face, and then they back off and just get me my fucking coffee, which is the whole reason I’m at their establishment in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/13 "2011-03-17T13:58:25Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > What’s your sartorial policy with regard to March 17th? If I remember, I’ll throw something green on. If I get up at 5:45am and am doing good just to remember to put on pants before leaving the house, like this morning, then I don’t wear green. Most years I don’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/14 "2011-03-17T14:04:33Z")
I had two shirts in my hand this morning. I put the black one back for tomorrow. My ancestors would be proud at all the thought I put into it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/15 "2011-03-17T14:08:17Z")
I’m of Irish descent, but not of Catholic origins, so green just wouldn’t be appropriate, anyway. And I’m not wearing orange. As if I gave a damn about this irritating “holiday”, anyway. So I voted Other. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/16 "2011-03-17T14:14:49Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > I’m wearing a green polo today. I hate St. Patrick’s Day, but I’m not in the mood for an hour of, “Why aren’t you wearing green?” at work today. I follow this philosophy. I don’t feel like answering the “Where’s your green?” question all day long from every student I see. Nor do I feel like fending off juvenile attempts at physical teasing. It’s a defensive move on my part. > [@Queen](#): > > It’s weird, I’m not Catholic anymore, I don’t pay any mind to that part of my history… but it still bugs me to see someone wear orange on St. Patrick’s day. It bugs me, too, because it comes across as someone who’s deliberately trying to stir up shit on a day that’s boringly fake amusement at best. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/17 "2011-03-17T14:16:07Z")
German ancestry: and I wore my only green shirt YESTERDAY. I didn’t even think of today being St. Patrick’s Day until they said yesterday we were doing things today for fun. So I’m in the inadvertently did not wear green and not of Irish descent category. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/18 "2011-03-17T14:30:48Z")
I’m as non-Irish as you can get, I guess. Still, doesn’t mean I wouldn’t wear green, I just never remember. > [@dalej42](#): > > I’m wearing a green polo today. I hate St. Patrick’s Day, but I’m not in the mood for an hour of, “Why aren’t you wearing green?” at work today. “My underwear is green.” ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/19 "2011-03-17T14:46:11Z")
Oblivious to St. Patrick’s Day. Hmm you’re right, it _is_ the 17th isn’t it? ::looks at apparel:: no green. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014/20 "2011-03-17T14:48:15Z")
I’m not Irish, and don’t particularly celebrate St. Pat’s - but I happen to have a green shirt and it was clean today so I wore it just for the hell of it. If I had not had anything green I wouldn’t have cared. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wearing-of-the-green/575014.md?page=2)