ALERT: Command Chain Broken

Well, it was just Dino wearing a red shirt yesterday. Actually, let me repeat that. Dino was wearing a red shirt yesterday.

That's right. No navy, no navy and white, no navy and brown, no navy and palm trees, no navy and—you get the point. And it wasn't any predominantly navy shirt with a few lines of red text or anything like that. It was full-on red. Red as the bloody mountain sunsets. Red.


If this does not surprise you, let me place it in context by quoting Sonny, who talked to Dino after I pointed out to him that Dino was wearing a red shirt.

"You can't just pull off a red shirt like that! I mean, for the past few years, all you've ever worn were the same three navy shirts in circulation, and then—bam!—yesterday you had a brand new navy shirt, and today, this red shirt! What is going on?!"

Yeah. That was why this had been so, uh, newsworthy. Because all of a sudden, Dino decided to expand his wardrobe or something. With a totally uncharacteristic color such as, dare I repeat it again, red. Mind-blowing.

Also, for some reason, Sonny was the one wearing the navy shirt yesterday. Oh, whatever has this world come down to?

I'll be the gossipy girl and speculate that it's because he went prom-shopping lately, and whilst there, he finally decided that he was going to listen to pretty much everyone around him and buy a few shirts that are not some combination of navy and navy. (Also, I would hate to imagine what would be his color of choice if the Yankees were orange and green and purple instead of their present navy and white.) Or maybe Lauretta inadvertently (or advertently, even if it's not a word) told him that a) she didn't like the color navy, b) she didn't like how he wears the same color every day, and/or c) she liked red better. If she did, then the fashion world is much better off with her presence (not that it wasn't before, I'm sure, but now even more so).

Then, of course, comes the question: why would he choose the color red when he's red-green colorblind? This part is what makes the part c of the Lauretta theory so much more plausible than any other theory out there so far. Or maybe Owen likes red a lot and is now trying to push it upon Dino. Or... Dino needs to wear red to absorb certain waves (that have wavelengths only absorb-able by red shirts) to ensure the proper functioning of some part of his circuit board.

That must be it.

(Totally unrelated, but Dino has a nice back. Very cushion-y but not too soft.)