Colour of the month challenge Oct 18

[Torchwatch]

This month's colour is grey, or gray to our American cousins.
In the days of the boil wash, white underwear and shirts used to stain to grey and black shirts would fade to grey.

While the rich wore white everyone else's clothes were stained and faded. The poor wore grey and grey became the colour of poverty.

The windrush generation arrived in London shortly after the war and coming from the Caribean found a country of grey skies, grey buildings and grey people. The buildings hadn't been painted since the beginning of the war and in a city that burned coal for warmth and power and ran steam trains everything was worn out and grimy.

With cleaner power, fresh paint and sythetic dyes and fabrics London is brighter and more colourful and grey has come back into fashion. The new in shade is anthracite for cars, tents and drain pipes.

So see what you can do with grey brief swimwear, include silver and pewter of course.