FLEA COLOURS
Spring fashions at the Court of Henry IV of France (according to an ancient book of dress compiled by Mme Robida) gave prominence to the following popular colours: Sad friend, dying monkey, gladsome window, lost time, fading flower, sick Spaniard, and common ham. In 1785, and the years preceding the French Revolution, the most becoming shades were these: Canary’s tail, dauphin (which reminds us of our shade, "Margaret Rose”), newly arrived people, lively shepherdess, stifled sigh, and a series of "flea” colours — flcaback, old flea, young flea. One of these daring young insects had penetrated to the Court itself, and its coming was immortalised in these colours. We even retain the name of this enterprising insect to this day in the colour "puce.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 5
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