Color Screams : Neutral tones are too tame for some un-shy guys. With shirts in loud patterns and prints, they can be spotted a mile away.

Beige, brown, boring. A look through the men’s stores suggests that everyone is into neutral non-colors, such as sand, pale gray and taupe.

But say you’re heading out the door for the neon wonderland of Las Vegas. Or you’ve got a crucial poker game coming up. Mud-brown just won’t do. You want wake-the-dead colors and splashy prints. Shirts that attract and repel all at once.

Don’t look in surf shops, where, oddly, the trend is toward drab and dismal colors.

Luckily, you’re sure to strike gold in a few other places. Or fuchsia. Or radioactive green. Fashion iconoclast Franco Moschino and sartorial humorist Nicole Miller bravely offer up shirts with colorful, witty and silly prints featuring everything from fried eggs to Archie comics. Jams World thumbs its nose at fashion with more color than a kindergarten finger-painting session.

Loud lovers should also make a trip to thrift shops such as American Rag Colours, where flamboyant vintage shirts run $10 to $15, or Aaardvark’s Odd Ark, where one goes for about $8. At Aaardvark’s Melrose store, look up and you’ll see vintage Hawaiian shirts hanging like artwork. They sell for up to $300, proving that given enough time, bad taste can turn into collectible camp.