The clothing reflected this fact.Īnd yet, thrown in with those drab colors was russet. It was more practical, to be dressed in dark gray and black and brown. Although the upper classes continued to wear silks and velvets and pretty bright dresses, most people wore their sad rags. This depressing list comes from a summary of the 1575 General Assembly of the Kirk, recorded in the Domestic Annals of Scotland. Portrait of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, c.
Embroidery was deemed “unseemly” as were “light and variant hues in clothing, as red, blue, yellow and such like, which declare the lightness of mind.” Instead, the Scots were told to wear simple fabrics in “grave colour,” such as “black, russet, sad grey, or sad brown.” While Mary was strutting around in fine lace and velvet and elaborate lockets, her people were told that God wanted them in chaste, sober clothes. She was tall and graceful, beautiful according to some accounts, but this didn’t endear her to the common people. By the time she returned to the newly Protestant Scotland at age eighteen, she had spent over a decade in the French court, developing a taste for elaborate gowns and flashy jewels. Maybe Mary was doomed to always be loathed for her femaleness and her Catholicism. Maybe the people would have loved her if she hadn’t been spirited away to be raised in France in 1548, but perhaps they wouldn’t have. Her precious body was guarded from that moment onward, moved like a pawn on a chessboard from one castle to another. Mary Stuart was six days old when she became the Queen of Scotland. OctoHue's Hue Russet, the Color of Peasants, Fox Fur, and Penance By Katy Kelleher.It’s a simple enough fact, and yet I have trouble wrapping my head around it. When residents first beheld Lady Liberty, they saw not an otherworldly, aqua-skinned allegory holding her lit torch to the sky, but a metallic, regal woman stretching upward from a granite plinth.
It felt like a revelation to read that tiny detail in Ian Frazier’s New Yorker piece on Statue of Liberty green. Before she was the verdigris icon, patron saint of many a bespoke paint color, she was copper-skinned. While it’s hard for me to even imagine standing inside a crowd of that size, it’s harder still to imagine the Statue of Liberty herself, as she looked then.
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Still, over a million freezing New Yorkers came out (including a boat full of suffragettes, protesting the statue).
The drapery was pulled off too soon (right in the middle of a speech), and the fireworks display had to be canceled and rescheduled. The weather was miserable and the ceremonial unveiling went poorly. It was a rainy October day in 1886 and the Statue of Liberty was shrouded in a French flag. It’s hard to imagine now, but people once gathered together freely, shoulders rubbing against shoulders, breath exchanged between lungs, bodies open to one another-all this closeness, almost a million people standing in a crowd just to watch a statue get undressed. 1765–72 (Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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