"terracotta is the new neutral"

i seriously had someone say that me, while wearing my orange shirt at work.

the shirt is orange (i was feeling daring in my black-gray-white work-world). not terracotta. that's something that laurie from trading spaces would call orange.

but since when do we talk about the "new neutral?"
i mean i'm TOTALLY down with the "new black" (orange was the new black one season many, many years ago). but the "new neutral" sounds hella lame.

just saying...