Jenny Joseph wrote a marvellous poem in 1961 called Warning - When I'm An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple... With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin sandals and say we've got no money for butter...You can enjoy the complete poem here.
It's a perennial favourite and has been voted Britain's best loved poem.
Its declaration of defiance against convention appeals to all those with a secret desire to throw off the strictures of propriety and set out to deliberately shock and be outrageous.
To do something different before they die.
All that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I have a passion for the colour.
And The Flying Tortoise now has Purple featuring in the bedroom...
