Somewhere in the myriad number of bookmarks I have created, there is one that spells out the liturgical colors. Only recently was blue added and only on Marian feasts. However, it takes a great stretch of the imagination to look at the vestment supplied by the Austrian Church and call it "blue". This is a veritable slap in the face of Pope Benedict XVI who shuns novelty.
According to the news stories leading up to his arrival, security was very tight in Austria. Quite simply, this pope is not well liked.
Well, I was in high school "only recently" -- hardly more than 40 years ago! ;-) don't recall the impression that the blue as a liturgical color for Spain was recent then, though.)