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Often, you can tell who is in charge by the colours they wear. This can apply to [[Royal Blood|royalty]], [[Blue Blood|nobility]], [[Bling of War|military leaders]], and even just the town mayor. Plus, this can apply to all of the clothes they wear or just a sash worn over a fancy suit (as long as they aren't the only one wearing it).
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* Even though most common colours are purple, blue, red, and gold, any colour will do as long as those not in charge don't wear it.
Also, this isn't really practiced in [[Real Life]] military forces anymore, as that just paints a bulls-eye on the officers. But for that very reason, [[Video Game
Compare [[Princesses Prefer Pink]], [[
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[
** The show also has a subtler instance of this trope: Murrue Ramius, [[The Captain]] of the [[Cool Starship]], is the only OMNI officer of any rank we see who ever has red shoulders on her uniform instead of black.
* More obvious in the ''[[
* In ''[[Kyo Kara Maoh
== [[Film]] ==
* In Franco Zefferelli's ''[[Romeo and Juliet]],'' the Prince wears deep purple, setting him apart from the blue Montagues and red Capulets.
** Incidentally, this colour choice is [[Shout
* In the film version of ''[[The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'', King Caspian always wears a purple shirt or tunic.
== [[Literature]] ==
* On ''[[Gor]]'', only Ubars (high-ranking warriors/leaders) may wear purple. Then, it's revealed that the Priest-Kings (the "gods" of the planet) have all of their slaves wear it as well.
* Most of [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[The Wind Singer]]'', the citizens of Aramanth must wear a colour denoting their social status: grey (lowest), maroon, orange, crimson, or white (highest...until Kestrel and Bowman run into the Emperor, who wears blue).
* In
* In [[David Eddings]]' ''[[The Belgariad|Belgariad]]'' and ''Malloreon'', only the Emperor is allowed to wear a gold toga in Tolnedra. The heir to the empire is allowed a gold border on his toga.
** And in his ''[[Elenium]]'', the patriarchs of the Church (basically, the story world's version of the Pope and his cardinals) all wear black at all
*
** This may be related to the real-life Pope's tradition of red shoes.
*** They were both doing it in imitation of the Byantine emperors. Who did it in imitation of the older Roman emperors. [[Older Than They Think|Who did it in imitation of the Etruscan kings.]]
* In the Deryni novels, Haldane rulers (Brion, Kelson, et.al.) wear red (unce Duke Alaric Morgan puts aside the black for other colours, he won't wear red because his king does). Prince Nigel Haldane, Duke of Carthmoor (Brion's brother and Kelson's uncle) wears royal blue.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', the fringe of the Ghiscari tokars signifies the importance of the wearer (with Tyrian Purple being the color of the Grand Masters).
* In the [[Honor Harrington
* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' has most traditional "official clothes" and uniforms more defined, but is some cases, common clothes of specific coloration display status too. The Garments of Truth are snow-white, and all [[The Order|magical orders]] have quasi-heraldic recognizable colors; in the Era of Orders mages also ''[[Red Sky, Take Warning|painted the sky]]'' in their colors when didn't feel like fighting directly - e.g. Sevenleaf's colors are "light blue and white", so they wear white with bluish border.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[
** Although the color might not be important. It's not exactly made clear.
* According to the ''[[
* In ''[[
== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Forgotten Realms]] don't have much places regimented this much, but in [[The Magocracy|Thay]], only Red Wizards are allowed to wear red (knowing them, commoners avoid even orange just to be on the safe side). And priests of Kossuth, though practically they are distinct, as their robes traditionally are dyed in many colors of flame.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The Head Death from ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' wears a purple cape. His underlings wear black.
* Trolls in ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Princess Yue in ''[[
** Gran Gran wears purple as well. {{spoiler|Of course, she was originally from the Northern tribe before she ran away due to her engagement, so maybe she was somebody important up there too.}}
** In "The Fortuneteller", Aunt Wu, the de facto ruler of her village, is the only one to wear a gold robe. All other residents wear shades of green, blue, or pink.
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* The colour called Tyrian purple actually looks more like maroon than your typical violet; the finest-grade dye was often described as 'dried blood'. It came from the mucus of a certain kind of Mediterranean seashell, the Murex, and required so many of them to make even the smallest amount of dye that it was worth twice its weight in silver. Expensive stuff, due its high cost there were legal limits on the amount anyone could wear at one point to prevent lavish waste. Cheaper purples were possible, by overdying a blue with a red, but they tended to be muddy and not very colorfast.
** Which was important to both history and religion because the source was the port city of Tyre, in the province of Judea, making the dye one of the Romans' reasons for controlling what's now Israel.
** When the artificial purple dye mauvine was invented in the nineteenth century, it was sometimes marketed as 'Tyrian purple' and soon became associated with political radical movements such as
* There were also rules about Jewellery - for example, the Ius Annuli restricted the wearing of gold rings to the Patrician class, silver to the Equites, and various lesser metals to the Plebs. (The extremely vain ex-slave Trimalchio, in ''Satyricon'', is ''just'' keeping within the law by wearing a gold ring with ''iron studs.'')
* A clear, bright, non-fading red was also rare, as it required either kermes or cochineal, once the Americas were discovered. Both of these are insects, and the dye is derived from their bodies. Given equal amounts of kermes and cochineal dye, the cochineal would dye 10 to 12 times more fabric. There were cheap red dyes, made from various plants (lichens and madder), but the colors these dyes produced tend to the orangey-red rather than a clear, bright crimson.
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** Saffron, that super-expensive and delicious spice, also doubled as one of the finest yellow dyes.
* In early modern England, sumptuary laws dictated which classes could wear which colors and materials (for instance, in order to wear velvet, you had to be at least a knight; silk was reserved for barons and above, and only members of the royal family could wear purple). When [[William Shakespeare]]'s company became the King's Men under the reign of James I, they were allowed to wear scarlet, which was a Big Deal, even if the sumptuary laws were frequently ignored.
* Traditionally, the Vatican has had a strict dress code about people who met with the
* [[Adolf Hitler]]. Although most photos are in black and white, colour ones show he normally wore a plain khaki uniform, while the army officers wore grey, the SS officers wore black, the navy wore white. Hitler also normally only wore his Iron Cross he earned in [[World War I]], while everyone around him wore multiple metals.
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