I guess that fits in with the brown shade of the silk sample. It's a
very pretty brown, darker than I think of as a mourning dove.
Katy
On 1/20/07, Ruth Anne Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...but mourning doves aren't gray. They're taupe (on the grayer or
browner side depending partly on the light), with iridescent pinky-
taupe or peachy-taupe breasts. This iridescence is, I believe, more
prominent on the male. I'd expect that this color would have been
very popular with Victorians--as it is with me, I'd LOVE to have a
gown of that soft taupe color especially if it were trimmed in peach!
(and dark dots on the train or around the hem?)
--Ruth Anne
http://www.backyardbirdcam.com/gallery/mourning-dove.htm
On Jan 20, 2007, at 7:18 PM, otsisto wrote:
> In the 1960s there was a color, Dove white which was a white with a
> hint of
> gray, though I have been told a white with a barely hint of pink which
> doesn't make sense to me. It was associated with turtle doves.
> Dove gray usually was a light gray, in association with the gray
> part of the
> Mourning doves (usually has a peach colored breast). This is my
> understanding of it but this is word of mouth handed down and not
> scholarly
> research.
>
> De
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Dear knowledgeable ones,
> A Victorian literature scholar of my acquaintance has asked me what
> color I think "dove-colored", as used in Little Women, would have
> been. She always thought white, because of white doves of peace, but
> I have always assumed a light gray, like the color now called "dove
> gray". Does anyone have anything definitive on this?
> Thank you!
> Lauren
> Lauren M. Walker
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