White? WHITE? I was more than once advised to avoid white anything because of its funerial associations in Japan- it's the traditional colour of mourning. So it just goes to show that there is no way to get it right on your own there, and to get even close to that one has to seek advice on most everything. Mind you, you get a lot of slack cut for you when you're a gaijin.

But I didn't get a sense of what your final decision is or will be?