Mauve

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Mauve
Wild mallow
 
Components
RGB ( r , g , b ) (224, 176, 255)
Hexadecimal triplet e0b0ff
CMYK ( c , m , y , k ) (12%, 31%, 0%, 0%)
HSL ( h , s , l ) (276 °, 31%,%)

Mauve [ mov ] ( French 'Mallow') is the color of the wild mallow , after the French name of the plant, which can be classified as a reddish purple or a rosy lilac .

The first artificial aniline dye , mauvein , is named after this color. This was discovered by chance in 1856 by the British chemist William Henry Perkin . Shortly thereafter, a large number of artificial dyes were developed, which revolutionized the dye industry. In 1858 the first fabrics were made in mauve.

Empress Eugénie

"Mauve, or violet colored silk" was mentioned by name in Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine from 1858 to 1869 as a trendy color of the better people. When Queen Victoria wore a silk dress dyed with mauve to the wedding of her daughter Victoria in 1858, it was widely reported and the color described. Likewise, Eugénie , the wife of Napoléon III. , the farm.

Use of words

In 1926, Thomas Beer described the 1890s under the title The mauve decade - American life at the end of the nineteenth century , without specifically going into why he called this period mauve decade . So it should have been known to the reader. This term for the decade is mostly used in the United States and less often in Great Britain.

In the United States, mauve was also known as the iconic color for gays and lesbians. In the 1940 travel guide How to Sin in Hollywood , a place was described as follows: “ When Your Urge's Mauve, [go to] the Café International on Sunset Boulevard. The location offered supper, drinks, and the ability to watch boy-girls who necked and sulked and little girl customers who ... look like boys. ”(German:“ If you feel the urge to be “mauve”, [go to] Café International on Sunset Boulevard . The bar offers dinner, drinks and the opportunity to smooch and sulk boy-girls [now known as drag queens , note]. and little customers who ... look like boys. ”) On the opposite page, a cartoon shows two of the“ little customers ”: They wear tuxedos and recognizable lipstick, and one smokes a cigar. It was also used for homosexuals in the artificial language Polari , which is mainly at home in London : “ [S] he is mauve. "(German:" She / He is homosexual. ")

In a sketch by Loriot , the color variants for the compact shelter K2000 (“available for an extra charge in Russian green, reed, eggshell and mauve”) were listed, which prompted the prompt “Mauve?” Request .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color # 32CD32 (Mauve):
  2. ↑ Ann Buermann Wass: Rivalling nature in the beauty and brilliancy of their coloring: Synthetic dyes and fashionable colors in Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine 1856-1891 , The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, December 2000
  3. ↑ Jonathan Brown: The Color Purple , The Independent , April 17, 2006
  4. ↑ Thomas Beer: The mauve decade - American life at the end of the nineteenth century ( Memento of the original of June 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mount Royal College's Gaslight Project, Armed Services Editions, Council on Books in Wartime, New York 1945. Reprinted by Carroll & Graf Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-7867-0501-9
  5. ↑ Jack Lord and Lloyd Hoff: How to Sin In Hollywood , Hollywood, CA, 1940
  6. ↑ Brett L. Abrams, Latitude in Mass-Produced Culture's Capital: New Women and Other Players in Hollywood, 1920-1941 , Frontiers , 2004
  7. ↑ Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor: The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Volume 2: JZ. 2nd Edition. Routledge, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-25938-X .
  8. ^ Loriot : Loriot's dramatic works , Diogenes, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-257-01004-4 .