For one day this week, green was the “new black” in New York City. On March 17, in addition to wearing the Irish colors and marching in the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade, New Yorkers swapped their dark-hued coats, shirts, skirts and accessories for those in shades of emerald, jade, teal, moss and celadon.
Hawkers stood on street corners selling strands of green Mardi Gras beads and buttons proclaiming: “Irish for a Day,” “God loves the Irish,” and “Happy St. Patrick’s Day.” Walking about the Upper East Side near the parade route on Fifth Avenue, I saw people wearing a gamut of green garments: a tutu skirt, a button-front shirt, ties, T-shirts, coats, scarves, and hats. A few mixed reddish-orange with their green (green, orange and white being the colors of the Irish flag).
Dimitri Jim Terezakis looked dapper with a green-tinted carnation boutonnière pinned to his suit lapel. Others appeared silly in green top hats, shamrock shaped sunglasses and tri-color wigs. Some didn’t have a choice but to wear green. That’s the standard color for New York Parks and Recreation uniforms.
Veronica Cranston of Brooklyn also "wears" the color regularly: she has a shamrock tattooed on her left wrist. “You can never go wrong with green,” Cranston said. But sure enough, the day after St. Patrick's Day most everyone I saw on the Upper East Side was back to wearing black and dark hues again.
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