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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!

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!!!!)

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.

I always manage to pick up the wrong quote sorry

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?

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 !

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

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 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 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.

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’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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My magpie rhyme has three for a letter.

No

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

Heard of green being unlucky but I wear it sometimes.
My great granny wouldn't have lilac in the house as she said it brought bad luck.
I think most superstitions are rubbish except for walking under a ladder as someone up there could drop something on you lol

Why, as a matter of interest, are your contributions to a thread always just the word ‘no’? Am I missing something here?

My message was meant for Mojack26

My old mum said green was unlucky and would never wear it or have anything green in the house. She would also never wear pearls and said ‘pearls for tears’.