Article: COLOR PURPLE GIVES ME THE BLUES.(Local)

Byline: Ralph Martin

This is it, red-blooded, steely-eyed, he-men of America. It's time to stand up and be counted. (Lay down if you're tired of flexing your muscles.)

I guess I was goaded into speaking out by a Times Union story earlier this week on earrings. Men wearing earrings! Heaven help us all, ma.

But my simmering fury goes even deeper, right to the color purple. Purple reportedly is the "in" color, along with purple lookalikes - plum, lilac, mauve and orchid. Anyway you look at them, they're sissy colors.

When is the men's fashion crowd going to stop toying us? Purple! That's for fancy soap and little girls. Do you think Hulk ...

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