Wearing green is one of the most important aspects of Irish culture and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, but not everyone knows why people wear green when celebrating the holiday worldwide. According to TIME Magazine,

It's a time of the year when green has nothing to do with envy. You'll see green beer (lots of green beer), green shirts, green ties, green dresses, maybe green eggs and corned beef with cabbage. St.

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers. But the holiday used to be a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue.