Can anyone tell me more about this?
"The allegory of colour, which already at the end
of the thirteenth century showed slight signs of
development, had now become a language
comprehensible to nearly everyone, and the
full-fledged dandy had now the means of
proclaiming to the world his amorous adventures by
the scale of colours displayed in his dress."
It's a quotation from "The Black Death: A
Chronicle of the Plague Compiled from Contemporary
Sources" by Johannes Nohl. My copy was published
by George, Allen & Unwin Ltd., in 1961, but the
book was first published in 1926. It's on page
153, where he's discussing European life after the
plague.
Obviously, this is an old book, and scholarship
has moved on. Is the concept just one of those
myths of costuming? But if it's true, what was
this colour code? I'd be grateful to know more
about that, but even more grateful to know if this
is a reliable author, because he says many more
interesting things.
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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