[yvan-eht-nioj]

I remember being in Tokyo station at rush hour and seeing a sea of beige/pastels and white shirts, with the odd pop of bright colour (usually another tourist) - exactly as you mentioned, but in the form of a microcosm.

I also remember noting that the effect of the homogeneity as being calming, generating serenity amidst what would otherwise be chaotic.

Perhaps the trend towards homogenous colours are communal hive-mind response to 21st Century overstimulation, noise pollution and ever increasing urban density - a desperate grasp for less stimulation in a world of endless beeping, flashing and ringing.

[shreyshnaccount]

I don't not buy this, but seems kinda far fetched. but then again this explains why the trend is apparently increasing in speed. (but i feel like there's more photos from the later we go that there has to be some kind of normalisation for this date to actually make sense...)

[ninefathom]

I had thoughts the same way myself (viz. response to overstimulation) but I'm not even remotely certain how to get hard numbers behind such a thing.