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[Lepidina]

Green is not always a fashionable colours even today. It does however compliment those with red hair, like Nero!

Graham.

True. I, a blonde, look great in certain shades of green and horrible in others. As a costume designer, green is HORRIBLE to light on stage. Either the person or clothing will look good, rarely both. I once put a lime green pantsuit on stage and my lighting director nearly killed me but he managed to make both him and the actor look good.

Anyway, green with hunting and symbolizing the Earth might be a reason that there wasn't a lot of green. Is there any literary evidence that people wore certain colors for religious reasons? The only one I can think of is Jewish priests having murex purple on their robes.