A bloke who only wears pink shirts now is insisting that they are all the rage having washed all of his white clothes with a single red sock.

Steve Dickinson let a single red sock sneak into the washing machine on Tuesday and now has four pink shirts and eight pairs of pink Calvin Klein of underpants.

He told The Rochdale Herald: “Luckily white shirts are really last season. Pink is the only colour anybody should be wearing in 2017.

“Pink is very versatile, though strangely it doesn’t go very well with red. A pink shirt and a red tie looks dreadful. I’m going to have to buy some new ties.”

Mr Dickinson is not likely to be setting any trends any time soon.

The sock responsible for infiltrating the Dickinson’s white laundry basket is wanted for questioning by the authorities and is currently in on the run.

Quentin D Fortesqueue is a founding editor of The Rochdale Herald. Part time amateur narcissist and full time satirist Quentin is never happier than when playing his lute and drinking a full bodied Bordeaux. He rarely plays the lute and never gets to drink Bordeaux.