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In folk stories the Queen of the Fairies wears green and is offended when mortals presume to wear it.

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My magpie rhyme has three for a letter.

I like the colour green It reminds me of the countryside.

When I was about 14 we went to a family friend's wedding and I wanted to wear my new, mostly green dress. My mother said green was unlucky at weddings and made me wear something else. Odd, really as she was a very down to earth and sensible person who was generally dismissive of superstition.

Not so many years ago, we booked a decorator to spruce up the outside of the house. I told him I wanted the windowsills white and the wooden front door British Racing Green and he was horrified. "You can't have a green front door! It's terribly unlucky. Things will always go wrong if you have a green front door."

I have no patience with this sort of codswallop and asked if he wanted the job or not. Turns out he did and the finished door looked great. It certainly didn't bring us bad luck; not long afterwards we sold the house for rather more than we'd expected to get.

An old friend once said green was unlucky and advised me not to buy a green car. I'm not superstitious and had never heard of that but wasn't looking for a green car anyway. I've owned cars of various colours over the years but never a green one, however that wasn't the reason. I've mostly owned red ones and blue ones both of which I like more than green.

A.ways think of it being lucky apart from in cars and then it’s a big no, don’t have any idea why.

I had an upbringing devoid of old wives tales - like those about green - I wore green clothes as a child aand I have worn them as an adult. I would say that, generally, my life has not been dogged by bad luck. On the contrary, I would say that my life has been very fortunate.

My late mum would never wear green as she thought it was unlucky.

I’m another ref head grey eyes girl and have always worn green to every occasion including weddings. My cousin wouldn’t allow his mother to wear green to his wedding, buts probably because he’s a Glasgow Rangers fan. Which is quite sad in my opinion, funny we never really got on.

Green has always been unlucky as it's the colour of the Little People and they don't like you using it. But as a believer in the Little People I now feel safe to use it.

I don’t think any green suits me so I never wear it but ditto yellow.
Yes, I think I’ve heard it said that you shouldn’t wear green to a wedding. Odd superstition to have evolved.

I love green but the old quote my DM used to utter always comes to mind ie Green should only be seen upon an Irish Queen. No idea of its origin.

I was born a red-head so I have worn green all my life, but I knew a lot of people who were superstitious about it in Britain, where it said either to have the connection already mentioned to the Irish rebellion or to be the colour of the Wee Folk, whom until at least the 20th century no Irish or Scottish person was willing to offend.

As far as I know, nowhere in Europe is green considered unlucky.

I'm a red head with grey eyes, green and blue are my colours, I always feel 'off' wearing other colours.

Fortunately I had never heard of green being an unlucky colour as it is my favourite. My bridesmaid wore apple green and most of my favourite clothes are green.I believe it is the colour that is easiest on the eyes.
I had a Korean student once who was superstitious about the colour red. She did not like me correcting her work in red. She wanted me to use green !

How can it be thought of as unlucky when, apart from blue (sky), it is everywhere, literally everywhere, and what colour would grass or trees be if not green?

I always manage to pick up the wrong quote sorry

Magenta8

There may be some connection with the Irish Rebellion of 1798, where supporters wore green and were 'put down' by the British troops.

Green is my lucky colour when we play games I always choose the green dice, but I would never wear green, as the colour does not sit me.

From age 5 to 18 my school uniforms were all bottle green. I never ever wear anything of that colour now.

( PS It really annoys me when this whatdoyoucallit tries to make me use American spelling. Let's hope that the u in colour is still there!!!!)

Green is my favourite colour. My first bike was green, and I fell in love with my current one which reminded me of my Hercules.
And I bought bright green skirt from Seasalt for GS1's graduation earlier this month.
So there!

About 18 years ago I hooked up with a lad (OK he's not a lad now) that I hadn't seen since I was 19, about 45 years before. He said, almost immediately, that he remembered my mother telling him never to get a green car as they were unlucky. And he never did get a green one, entirely because of this!

I wear various variations of greens but have blue eyes. However I would never buy a green car as always been told that is unlucky. Apparently they blend in with countryside and cannot always be seen my mum said causing accidents. My brother’s first car was green and he crashed it very soon after buying it which made mum more insistent about green cars! Never heard of anything else green being unlucky. I wore a pale turquoisey/green outfit to DD2’s wedding maybe that is why her marriage ended very acrimoniously in divorce 😂

I’ve green eyes so I’m sort of stuck with it.

Seriously, it’s my favourite colour, and I’ve loads of green clothes, accessories, household items, even walls. I’m not especially unlucky, though of course I’ll touch my green wooden garden fence as I say that…

Thank you everyone for your comments. Nice to get all your thoughts