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Confidence votes 6.3K. The defining costume color of a Roman Catholic Cardinal is scarlet red. The daily wear of a Cardinal is a cassock, a long button-front robe that is ordinarily black, except in the tropics where it may be white. The Cardinal's cassock is trimmed with red and worn with a broad red sash around the waist.
But for a growing number of people, taking part in the holiday means wearing orange. According to this increasingly popular tradition, Protestants wear orange and leave green attire to Catholics. Thus, the color you wear actually depends on your religious affiliation. While this color tradition is not well known, it has deep roots in Irish history.