Color wars

How far in or out of synch are the guys Teresa Nielsen Hayden talks about here as regards our European colors, I wonder? And do we have our own version of this shadowy force?

…Damned if I’m going to wear what colors they tell me, though. It’s happened before that I’ve refused to buy anything new for a few years until the colors sorted themselves out into ones that (for example) didn’t turn me into a large walking stalk of asparagus. If it needs to happen again, well, so be it.