Blue Collar, White Collar – Yellow Collar?

Had a conversation today, which brought about a bit of a gap.

We were speaking about the employment of a couple we know. Both happened to be in the blue collar sector.

That begged my question.

If you’re not a white collar, say office worker – nor a blue collar say labouror… then what are you?
Say you’re an artist. What collar colour does that make you?

Had a knee slapper the other day when my sink was plugged and I complained about it to my mother (aged 74), she replied by text with, “Ask the experts… Google.”

Of course tonight when I Googled white collar workers, I thought for fun maybe an artist would be a purple collar worker.

Not so.

Apparently a purple collar refers to someone who sells marijuana.

A red collar worker is someone in China.

Which left in my mind a yellow collar. 

Bingo!

Yes, yellow collars are for us creative types.

So you know.