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Orange colour in culture

Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometres. In painting and traditional colour theory, it is a secondary colour of pigments, created by mixing yellow and red.…

Orange colour in culture

Purple in culture

Purple is a color intermediate between blue and red. It is similar to violet, but unlike violet, which is a spectral color with its own wavelength on the visible spectrum of light, purple is a composite color made by combining red and blue. According to surveys in Europe and the…

Purple in culture

Pink color in culture

Pink is a pale red color that is named after a flower of the same name. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness,…

Pink color in culture

Yellow color in culture

Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of visible light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 570–590 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In the RGB color model, used to create…

Yellow color in culture

Red color in culture

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan.…

Red color in culture

Green color in culture

Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan;…

Green color in culture

Blue colour in Culture

Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450…

Blue colour in Culture

Black color in Culture

Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, literally a color without hue, like white (its opposite) and gray. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness, while white represents light. Black ink is the…

Black color in Culture

Color analysis art

In the cosmetics and fashion industry, color analysis, also called skin tone color matching, personal color or seasonal color, is the process of finding colors of clothing and makeup to match a person’s skin complexion, eye color, and hair color. The goal is to determine the colors that best suit…

Color analysis art

Women’s Fashion from 1800s to 1950s, A History of Shaping the Body, York Castle Museums

For centuries women’s clothing has exaggerated body shape to fashionable extremes. This collections shows body-shaping fashions from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, using objects from York Castle Museum’s Costume and Textiles collection. Mass production of sewing machines in the 1850s as well as the advent of synthetic dyes introduced…

Women’s Fashion from 1800s to 1950s, A History of Shaping the Body, York Castle Museums

The Magnificent Georgian Wedding Dress, York Castle Museum

This exhibition showcases a treasure from York Castle Museum’s costume and textiles collection – a wedding dress from 1775. Women’s dress in Georgian era, the day to day outfit of the skirt and jacket style were practical and tactful, recalling the working class woman. Women’s fashions followed classical ideals, and…

The Magnificent Georgian Wedding Dress, York Castle Museum

The magnificent eighteenth-century man’s wedding suit, York Castle Museum

The eighteenth-century styles man’s suit elaborately embroidered and jeweled formal clothing into the simpler clothing of the Regency period (1811–20), which gradually evolved to the stark formality of the Victorian era (1837-1901). Men’s Wedding Suit. Coat for three piece suit of green corded silk with vent and fan pleats at…

The magnificent eighteenth-century man’s wedding suit, York Castle Museum

Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century’s British Victorian era or…

Steampunk

Retro style

Retro style is a style that is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the historical past, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes. It may also be known as “vintage inspired”. Definition The term retro has been in use since the 1960s to describe on…

Retro style

Fashion in the Restoration and Biedermeier period

In the period of the so-called restoration, the perspective also changed for women’s fashion, and from around 1820 there was a return to old forms. The period from the end of the Vienna Congress in 1815 to the beginning of the bourgeois revolution in 1848 in the countries of the…

Fashion in the Restoration and Biedermeier period

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