Joe F-- Now you've got me thinking of the days after 9/11 in America, and the obsession with color-coded security levels. ...I'm now wondering what that would be like with a Jenny Jenkins edition

Goose Gander:

"Dress in brown = live in town" reminds me of my Mother's stories, growing up. She grew up in NYC from the mid-1930s - 50s, and she said the native New Yorkers all wore dark browns and blacks, because that way, the soot that was in the air from all the factories and car exhaust wouldn't show on your clothes. And you could always tell the who the tourists were, because they were dressed in their pastel-colored fancy clothes.

That started to change, with the advent of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), and the Clean Air Act. Now NYC natives are as colorful as everyone else. :-)

Of course, living in town is not necessarily a bad fate for a bride, depending on which town that ends up being (keeps that in mind for any possible future wedding).