Kate wrote: >I find this is still true. Here in the UK "aubergine" is usually a dark >purple (the colour of what you Americans call eggplants), but in a >recent catalogue I've seen the name applied to a lighter >pinkish-purple.
I used to have a housemate who was a professional seamstress, and who got a lot of her business from weddings. She has a story of a bride who ordered her attendants' dresses in advance (as one does) and chose the color from a small color chip. When the dresses arrived, the bride _and_ the bridesmaids all said "Eeeeeeeuuuuuuwwwww!" because no one had really visualized the color correctly from that small sample, and the color was "aubergine" --exactly the dark, slightly greenish purple of an eggplant..... So my housemate got the job of making three bridesmaids' dresses in two weeks from some OTHER color. <grin> She also commented that brides who intend to make their own dresses are the seamstress' best friend, because either they run out of time or they buy $50 per yard lace and are afraid to cut into it. On the color descriptions angle, I know Penny Ladnier used to work on color names -- have you tried her website to see if any of her work is posted? ____________________________________________________________ 0 Chris Laning | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + Davis, California http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
