print email comment close The Right Chemistry: Colors in Fashion, 1704-1918 URL: http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/colors/main.htm Description: This exhibition "begins at a time when few dyers were chemists and almost all colors were extracted from living organisms, and ends at a time when dyes were synthesized in laboratories." Features a discussion of the creation of red, blue, yellow, white, beige, purple (including the "rage for mauve and the aniline dye boom" in the late 1850s and 1860s), and green dyes, along with images of historical clothing. From the Kent State University Museum. Author: Bissonnette, Anne, curator Publisher: Kent State University Museum Library of Congress Subject Headings: Color in clothing Dyes and dyeing Fashion -- History LII Database Information: Record 10067 created by Maria Brandt on 03/16/2005 Last modification on 05/19/2005 Published: 03/16/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/10067