why do you wear green on st Patrick's day day and if you don't wear green you get pinched?

Answer 1

I pinch people whether they have green on or not. I just say sorry I'm colorblind. Kiss me I'm Drunkish!!

Answer 2

So why do we all wear green?

Probably because you'll be pinched if you don't! School children started this tradition. Green is also the color of spring, the shamrock and is connected with hope and nature.

The luck of the Irish

Want to be lucky this St. Patrick's Day? Follow this advice:

1. Find a four-leaf clover. 2. Wear green (so you don't get pinched). 3. Kiss the blarney stone. 4. Catch a Leprechaun if you can.

In honor of the festivities we leave you with this Irish blessing: May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow and may trouble avoid you wherever you go!

Answer 3

It goes back to when Ireland was under British rule and wearing green on St. Patrick's Day was a symbol of Irish nationalism. The British even outlawed wearing green on SPD at one point.

If you didn't wear green, it meant you were not patriotic, and I think they did more than pinch you. They might have punched you. So, this tradition got carried over to the Irish diasporah, US, Canada, Australia, etc. and became getting pinched.

Growing up, I even heard that if you wore orange on SPD you would get a brick dropped on your head.

Orange was the symbol of Northern Irish Protestant nationalism (the House of Orange under William of Orange - of "William and Mary" fame - reconquered Ireland after the Catholic Stuarts lost the British crown).

Answer 4

Local (USA) tradition. If you don't wear green, people will pinch you. Have to wear green and the more the better. No one knows why or even cares. It's just for fun.