To think a crowd of people all wearing black coats is depressing and dreary?

[PurpleParrotfish]

School Christmas concert this morning. Kids all in cheery Christmas jumpers. Parents looked like a funeral.
Why, nowadays does almost everyone wear black winter coats? It’s dreary enough in the dark days of winter, there’s no law against having a bit of colour.
In the row of 23 adults in front of me, I counted one cream / light beige coat, one brown, one emerald green, one dark khaki - and the rest all black, maybe with the odd dark navy among them. No cheery coloured scarves or anything like that.
Anyone else agree that it makes winter more depressing when commuters or even Christmas shopping crowds are wall to wall black (with occasional navy/dark grey if you’re lucky) and wish colourful coats were fashionable again?
Yes, I know, first world problems, bigger things to worry about etc…

I have lots of bright colours...wear all year round...hate the dark winter and the sheep all wearing black and grey....same with those who paint houses black and grey...looks awful....

I actually feel the same with children’s coats. They all seem to be in darker shades and with the darker evenings I really worry about them being invisible to cars.

I have a bright green coat, but my warmest, smartest one is a floor length black wool coat I got from a charity shop. It's black because I had a choice of one! It was only twenty quid though, do that's nice, and I wear colourful scarves and hats if I fancy it

I find jeans to be dull dreary and depressing....

@PurpleParrotfish if you don’t see why having a matching coat matters then you are not going to get it. I may have a coat mania (mainly 2nd hand/sale!) but a coat that doesn’t go to me just makes you look underdressed and unkempt. Many people like to look nice especially for an occasion when all the other parents in the school are going to be there, it makes a good impression to be nicely dressed, even in jeans and shows respect to the event you are attending. Also given it’s Monday I imagine most of the adults are in their work coat, which is often black because it goes w everything, hides dirt and is not inappropriate

Bright red here. My favourite colour and coincidentally feels Christmassy .

I wear black because I like it. Whether strangers find it cheery enough doesn't matter a single iota to me.

The concert was lovely, thanks for those asking. Short and sweet and I did the coat counting before it started!
I’m sure lots of people would criticise my own wardrobe, and I would never think any one individual in a black coat looked dreary. But a crowd of them all dressed alike - I can’t help thinking it’s depressing and yearn for colour.

I like black, it matches many things and it’s elegant.

Whether or not it might make someone else feel depressed is not a factor

What colour is your coat?

@YouScumbagYouMaggotHeresKevinTheCarrot massive LOL at your username. Love it.

If people wearing Black coats is enough to depress you than you must have it very easy!

I think this was a mean spirited thread to start

Some people don't have the funds for anything other than a plain 'match every outfit and occasion' BLACK coat.....a washed robe basic

To do school run,shopping,dog walking,funerals ....whilst hiding as many marks and as much dirt to delay laundering for as long as possible.

Nasty op!

Mine is dark green and I love it, the one before that was turquoise- I don't think I've had a black coat since school! I much prefer colour!

Black goes with everything, it's practical and easy to clean.

People can't afford multiple coloured coats!

Don't see why people don't just buy Navy. Much nicer but still dark and goes with everything pretty much

I tend to wear brightly coloured coats - if I wore a black one it wouldn't be black, it'd be black with accents of cat fur...

I had a colleague who always used to wear cream or white winter coats. Given she lived and worked on London and commuted on the tube it was a bit of a power move - look at all the dry cleaning I can afford! 😆

I wear black because I like black. I assume the other people who wear black coats do so because they like black. Unless you’d rather we wore coats of a colour we don’t like, just because someone who is sitting near us prefers to see people wearing colours other than black? How odd.

I don’t like navy. I like black. If I liked navy I’d buy a navy coat.

@chappysays My thoughts exactly and what I do, but then again I took me ages to do that as my school coats had to be navy.

@Burgoo - wow love that!
I do agree OP. My daughter just said this morning that everyone was wearing dark coats (as I was, but with a bright scarf. She was wearing red).

I have three black coats.

A few years ago I came back from India in early January and was waiting in a big train station to be collected. I was so struck by all the black, grey coats, such a contrast to the bright colours of saris etc in India. And by what seemed almost like silence. A large station in India is a very noisy place. It looked almost like national mourning here. Quite striking.