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In 1992, Christian Louboutin felt a finished high heel's black sole looked flat, so he grabbed his assistant's red nail polish and painted it straight onto the sole. That spur-of-the-moment red sole has symbolized his brand ever since.
Bulls aren't enraged by red. Cattle are red-green colorblind and barely see red. A bull charges a matador's muleta because the cloth moves, not its color. In MythBusters, bulls charged red, blue and white flags alike. Red just hides blood.
Yi Hwang (Toegye), a great Confucian scholar of the Joseon dynasty, found his white mourning robe patched with red cloth by his mentally ill wife. He wore it to the funeral anyway, telling mourners: "Red wards off evil spirits—my wife meant well."