Well, thank god that’s over.
In all seriousness: Big thanks to everyone who made yesterday’s Purp Walk ’26 so much fun. It all came together in less than a week, so I’m pretty amazed at how well it went — a decent amount of traffic, lots of good feedback, and plenty of good vibes. Plus we sold about 30 T-shirts and got 17 new purple membership card orders — not bad! (If you placed one of those orders, you should get your finished card in about a month. Thanks in advance for your patience.)
Some readers also dressed appropriately for the occasion. Ron Ruelle, for example, wore his purple-pinstriped Todd Helton Rockies jersey (with a Brooklyn Branches pin!):
Purpologist Kary Klismet, who’s spent years chronicling the history of uniforms with mismatched shades of purple, wore a purple Lakers T-shirt and a mismatched purple cap from a Denver ice cream company called Sweet Cow:
Even better, the cap’s cloth and mesh were distinct shades of purple, creating an additional mismatch:
And reader Marty Hick (the subject of a recent Uni Watch testimonial) added to his legend by whipping up some DIY Purple Amnesty Day shirts for himself and his colleagues at Green Trails Elementary School in Chesterfield, Mo.:
I was hoping more readers would submit photos of themselves clad in purple, but I can’t really complain because I didn’t wear any purple yesterday myself. Why? Because I don’t own any purple clothing, obviously! I used to have a whole purple outfit that I’d trot out for Purple Amnesty Day, but I got rid of it after stepping away from the site in 2024, because I figured I’d never be doing Purp Walk again. Just when I thought I was out!
Speaking of which, my Purp Walk outfit really belongs in Kary K’s pantheon of mismatched purple uniforms. Check out this shot from 2024 in Baltimore:
I even had mismatched purple shoelaces! That was intentional — I was basically trying to rep as many shades of the accursed color as possible.
Okay, that’s a wrap for Purp Walk ’26. Thanks again to everyone who made it so much fun. The next big date on the Uni Watch calendar is May 26 — one week from today — which will be the 27th anniversary of the very first Uni Watch column. I don’t currently have any big plans for commemorating that milestone, but we’ll see how things develop over the next week. And I’ll continue to publish occasional posts as the mood strikes me, at least for now.
