| January 14, 2020 01:43PM |
Rosso Wrote:
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> Certainly in europe, the victorian era was one of
> great beauty and flamboyance, but most tv and
> films show everything as shades of brown.
>
Or to put it another way, the Victorians never thought any color was too bright and had no concept of colors clashing. Pastels were not used by many in that era.
Probably related to all the new coal tar dyes that were coming out from ca 1850 on. Bright was hip, the old vegetable dyes were for squares.
hank
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> Certainly in europe, the victorian era was one of
> great beauty and flamboyance, but most tv and
> films show everything as shades of brown.
>
Or to put it another way, the Victorians never thought any color was too bright and had no concept of colors clashing. Pastels were not used by many in that era.
Probably related to all the new coal tar dyes that were coming out from ca 1850 on. Bright was hip, the old vegetable dyes were for squares.
hank
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