Now the rainbow is eleven. Nothing surprises me any more. Is it the printers? Just when you thought you had the right wall-chart a new scheme gets released and whatever you thought before is the new boomer?
Or fabric dyers. Swanning around in your woke millennial garb then one day notice all these weirdos sneering at you. "Eleven hued rainbow?" These are Z generation. You feel so outmoded. "Eeeeeeeew!" they say. Ashamed, you sneak into a boutique. The assistants look you up and down as though they're about to vomit. On the racks are quite zingy (freshly printed in brand-new tones from the Dyers Guild) clothing items. At least you think it's clothing. You get changed into the new stuff and your assistant suggests wearing it so as to keep up standards (the shop will incinerate what you came in wearing) and off you go: confident.
Almost immediately: "(snigger)"
[THEN] "HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!" and yes, they're looking at you. The most obnoxious little freaks you've ever seen are gawping and pointing and doubled up in laughter. They're all dressed in black & white and think you look like an idiot – which, to Generation Alpha, presumably everyone does.
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Someone mentioned hankies. The Dyers Guild have been busy here. Regardless of whether the 9th stripe is Pale Azure or Uranian Blue, there were some lovely shades to chose from arranged as complementary palettes. Above I've shown the Elysium Palette containing 5 variations from a selection of 74,695.
That's 74,695 palettes (x 5 each) so 373,475 new hankies soon to be available. And whoever's walking around in that Lego scheme will be expected to start talking about the Napoleonic wars.