FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.
It was an eye-popping magenta purple
HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...
...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.
(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).
They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.
Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.
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📺 Kaleidoscope Visuals 4K, Relaxing Ambient Music, Elegant Art Deco Background Video, Visual ASMR
Kaleidoscope art can be created using a variety of media, including traditional kaleidoscopes, digital kaleidoscopes, paintings, sculptures, and textiles. Traditional kaleidoscopes are made up of a tube with mirrors at each end and a viewing hole in the side. The tube is filled with small objects, such as beads, glitter, or pieces of colored glass. When you look through the viewing hole, you see a symmetrical pattern of the objects reflected in the mirrors.
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visited M.S. RAU for an exhibit opening || Instagram
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hello, internet user. before you is a selection of pictures you tagged "dark academia." you have 30 minutes to explain what each of them has to do with academia, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship"
if you cannot complete this task a literature professor will enter the room and beat you into unconsciousness with a baseball bat that has the word "GOTHIC" printed on it in large letters
good luck
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REBECCA PONS'S SUMMER SOLSTICE ESSENTIALS
Check out a few on my loves and essentials for summer. I hope you like them. Select the photo to be navigated to purchase.
Tra Man Sen (Co Do Hue) 903 Lotus Blossom Tea (Link on Photo) Hong Kong Market 925 Behrman Hwy Terrytown, LA 70056
Neutrogena Invisible Daily Defense Sunscreen (Link on Photo)
Rebecca Pons Art Spring Equinox Illustration (Link on Photo)
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Ivy and Freckle in the Art Deco wilds.
Ivy might have nearly danced them to death.
Prints available in the Lackadaisy Online Shop
....along with some other new stuff!
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Victoria Reynold's Paintings of Raw Flesh
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