COLOUR CONSCIOUS
PEOPLE IN THE PAST Giving exotic and romantic names to colours, such as “Jungle Red” and “Warm Sunset,” is not a modern idea at all. The fashion for coloured dresses came first from Carthage after the Punic Wars. “Carnation Pink” and “Unripe Grape” immediately took women’s fancy, but Cato tried unsuccessfully to prevent women from wearing coloured dresses. Men preferred more masculine colours, two favourite shades for military cloaks being “Congealed Blood” and “Running Blood.” Lucullue had 5000 cloaks—which gives a good idea of what some oi the fashionable men’s wardrobes must have been in those times.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 25 (Supplement)
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99COLOUR CONSCIOUS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 25 (Supplement)
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