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Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you I wear black. Black jeans, black shirts, all black, that’s all I’ve ever worn. They’d be wrong of course. When I first started work I used to wear white shirts (I’m wearing one in my pass photo, although it is 10 years old) and I’ve not worn a black coat to work regularly for quite a while (ironically enough not since I started wearing black shirts).

The whole black shirt thing started when one of my colleagues, who also wore all black, left. I needed to buy a new set of shirts (I was still wearing shirts I’d worn at school and they were getting to be just a little bit on the old side ) and I decided to take up the mantel of The Guy Who Wears All Black. Well, it worked. I’ve had two girlfriends over a number of years try and [to a lesser or greater extent] fail to get me to wear colour plus the obligatory barrage of pisstaking from my friends on the rare occasion that I’ve worn non black (usually weddings and usually because I am in a suite).

I’ve decided to go for a change though. My current crop of black shirts are well past the stage where I should have replaced them and the lack of long sleeved black shirts in M&S coupled with suggestions from a few friends that I might actually attract more women if I wore a bit of colour has lead me to go buy a whole load of coloured shirts (well, OK, 3 actually, and one white linen one). I will probably be throwing out the 3 light weight black (actually so faded they’re brown looking) shirts straight away and keeping the 3 heavier black (actually so faded they’re green looking) shirts for things like painting and crawling around in the mud. I’ll also probably go buy another 4 shirts fairly soon just to make sure I have enough for the week.

Anyway, today I am wearing a purple with white stripes job and I am fully expecting a whole barrage of comments and pisstakes from friends and colleagues (something that will no doubt last a couple of weeks).  I’m also getting my hair cut. I’m just not sure if its going to be a trim, a restyle or something a lot more drastic.