I got into the lift on the fifth floor. At the fourth floor, a man joined me. At the third floor, two men entered.

Suddenly, I noticed that they were all wearing blue striped shirts. The stripes were of different thicknesses and the blues were of different shades. Nonetheless, there was a clear mega-pattern amongst the three men.

Even more curiously, one of the man was carrying a plastic bag… full of what looked like striped blue shirts.

Two and a half years ago, I marvelled at a lift full of men wearing pink shirts.

Perhaps now, with redundancies looming large, people are retreating to safer fashion shores.