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1862 illustrations "arsenic waltz" alludes arsenic in clothing and artificial flowers. Source: National Geographic magazine.

Nowadays, when it comes to green, most people think of healthy and organic positive words, but you know that the main color of nature is once a cruel role of killing blood without blood.

In 1814, in the Schweinfurt (Skei Vee Hussein Foot) area of Germany, a company called Wilhelm Dye and White Lead developed a new green color, which is similar to the current "bottle green". This green shiny color makes people crazy about kerosene lamps in the Vitoria era, and suddenly spreads all over the world, especially clothing, wallpaper, carpets and other products.

But surprisingly, death also followed. People wearing and wearing such dyed clothes began to lose their hair, skin ulceration, organ failure, and eventually died.

The main culprit is the "green arsenic" which is the main ingredient in the process of making green, and many of its compounds contain lethal toxicity. For example, the arsenic that is necessary for killing ancient costumes is one of them.

There is also tetramine as a "near relative" of arsenic.

The 1862 illustrator, Waltz of arsenic, depicts the scene of the dance of death dancing in arsenic containing dress. This illustration is included in the fashion victim: Alison Matthews Dangers Matthews Dress Past and Present, an associate professor of the Alison David school in Canada. The book shows the potential dangers of fashion costumes in various forms in the form of illustration. The author also presents the death and physical symptoms of clothing in an intuitive way.

With such a dark history, it is no wonder that in many cartoons, poison is always depicted as a green liquid that shines with the light of fascination.

Arsenic dyed green dress is now hidden in the Museum of beta shoes, Toronto.

German artist Martin Engelbrecht describes the hand-made sculptures of women workers who will stitching their fabric to their upper bodies.

During his exile in Napoleon, his residence was full of gold and green symbolizing the authority of the French emperor.

After Napoleon's death, it was found that the arsenic content in his hair was severely exceeded.

Workers suffering from arsenic poisoning in hands by color lithography printing workers

Pink and blue: can I know that I am a virgin?

Last year, when the US presidential election was held, the sex discrimination problem existed in the New York Times report on "pink and blue America: when the general election became a gender war", and pink and blue are now the "generation name" of women and men.

However, these two colors have also had a history of gender reversal: Historically, pink was once a representative of male majestic temperament, because this "diluted red" was once considered to mean power and gave the impression of being resolute and heroic, and even in the 1927 issue of the times, there were also guidelines for parents to teach boys to wear pink.

"In the early twentieth Century, the color of clothes began to define sex," Joe peloti, an American research professor at University of Maryland, told the National Geographic magazine.

By 1940, the gender image of pink and blue tended to be fixed, and has continued to this day.

The reason is that it is widely believed that toy salesmen make the rule of "male blue girl powder" by sex marketing. Assuming that superheroes and heroes are pink, then the pink boy doesn't sound so awkward.

The picture is called "pink and blue" for Korean photographer Jeong Mee Yoon, and he also meets girls who change their favorite colors at the right time. For example, Miya on the right is like blue.

White: symbol of pure girl, also symbolized a stack of banknotes.

Although the wedding dress has more and more color choices, white is still the mainstream.

But have you ever thought of why the wedding dress must be white?

The reason why white becomes the main color of wedding dress dates back to the wedding of Queen Victoria, England in 1840.

At that time, Queen Victoria was four stunning white wedding gowns. The expensive silk from China and the lace produced in the town of hornton, England, made people feel the heroic and exquisite royal wedding. Countless girls dreamed of wearing such a wedding dress.

The media began to praise white as "the most suitable color for the bride, the symbol of purity and innocence of the girlhood, and the bride will give it to the pure heart of the son of God."

From then on.

Wedding dress is generally considered to be white.

Unlike Yu Chunjie, white has other implications in the United States.

The United States once had "Labor Day (on the first Monday of September every year) not to wear white". There was a lot of different opinions. One saying was that in September, near the north end of the traditional summer, the middle class and high-class class who came back from the holidays came back to the city at the same time.

In this regard, it is further said that after the civil war, the upper class society was no longer satisfied with simple accumulation of wealth, but instead of showing off wealth. However, even if the rich people wore expensive clothes, they might not be able to see why.

As a result, gentry ladies wear special dirty white when they are on holiday, in order to prove that they have servants and financial resources.

Therefore, after the establishment of the labor day in 1894, there was a clear point in the upper class society, that is, no longer wear white after labor day.

Queen Victoria's wedding dress

Hornton lace was born in East Devon, England in sixteenth Century, and became famous at the wedding of Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria wedding

Wedding dress made by British designer John Galliano for Kate Moss

Princess Diana's wedding dress

American designer Helen Ross (Helen Rose) designed wedding dress for Elizabeth Taylor (Elizabeth Taylor).

American designer Ann Lowe designs wedding dress for "first lady" Kennedy Jacqueline (Jacqueline Kennedy).

Time magazine's "no white" custom related video "Why It's O.K. To Wear White After Labor Day" screenshots

In recent years, this custom has been gradually broken. In fact, Mark Twain, who loved white suits, often chose to ignore the saying "no white after labor."

In the movie Serial Mom, Patti Hester's role does not conform to the custom of not wearing white on labor day, so a mental patient murdered her.

Purple: noble in the urine.

In general, purple symbolizes nobility. However, the royal purple, which is infatuated with the Kaiser emperor and Cleopatra, is actually derived from rancid water and rotten materials. The process of making it will send out stench; Victoria Finley, British writer, is in color.

The Brilliant History of Color in Art describes how to make Royal Purple: "rotten dye snail (a mollusk living in the sand and the sea) is immersed in a mixture of stinking urine and water with wood ash."

However, it is still possible to link purple with the royal family. For example, the Imperial Palace, which is clearly the red wall, is called the Forbidden City.

This is partly due to the fact that in the ancient Chinese astrology, the stars were divided into three walls, twenty-eight stars and other stars.

Three yuan refers to Tai Wei Yuan, Tian Shi Yuan and Zi Wei Xing Yuan. The location of the purple star is located in the place where the emperor lives, so the Imperial Palace has purple pole, purple forbidden and purple yuan.

In ancient Japan, there was a rank system of "Twelve ranks of crowns," and purple was the highest order, followed by blue, red, yellow, white and black.

As a result, several times have been thrown away, and the people who are forbidden to wear Chinese clothes will still be secretly adorned with purple in the inner side of the clothes, secretly calculating the contamination.

Peter Paul Ruben 1636: the discovery of purple

In ancient China, purple was used to make purple.

Bony snails

The kingdom of the kingdom of Caroline, the purple detail of the shroud of Charleyman, the founder of the Holy Rome Empire (742-814).

The woolen fabric fragments of the pale purple Greek letter "Kitot" unearthed from the Kitot tomb in Palmyra, Syria.

Cleopatra pictures

In the era of peace in Japan, the Japanese painter Kagawa Hiroshige painted fifty-four pieces of "cicada" in the story of the tale of the origin.

Black: mixed reputation

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Bound, whether it is Coco Chanel's little black dress, or Yves Saint Laurent's smoking suit, black is an eternal classic color.

However, black in history is somewhat mixed.

In John Harvey's black story: a radical change in the history of human civilization, the author discusses black history in detail. For example, the ancient Egyptians used black to represent death, while European whites regarded black as negativity because of black slave trade.

But this is not absolute. Like the black god of Navajo, Zhou Dai is the messenger of fire and stars, and the color of Chinese marriage also advocates "Xuan system" (black and light red).

The great black god in Tibetan Buddhism

Dusk: in ancient dusk, its Yin and Yang alternates gradually.

Coco Chanel's little black dress

In the morning of Tiffany, Audrey Hepburn wears a black Givenchy Audrey dress.

Smoking suits for Yves Saint Laurent