Okay, I know this is an off-the-wall topic, but today I just learned that the color purple is considered bad luck in Italy, because it's associated with funerals. For example, actors don't wear purple on stage (and audience members wearing purple have been asked to leave the theater); you don't wrap gifts in purple paper; purple is never used as a decor color in Italian weddings.
This would all be just charming information, except that my sister and I are going to Italy in two weeks, and both of us have substantial amounts of purple in our traveling clothes.
What to do? Do we have to find new, non-purple stuff to wear? Would it be considered bad manners to wear our purple stuff? This has thrown us for a loop!