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There are many opinions about the newly appointed Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett.
That she is a wolf in sheep’s clothing is one of them.
Opinion that gained momentum after hearings in the United States Senate Justice Committee. She cleverly faked questions from Democrats about her views on controversial climate issues and abortion rights, the latter an issue she has personally said she opposes.
On the republican side instead, she was asked who did the laundry in the family home, which consists of seven children and a husband. “I try to get everyone in the house to wash their own clothes,” he replied diplomatically.
And she did it dressed in dresses and suits with female color-coded skirts and blouses: fuchsia pink, red, lilac and lavender.
The opponents grunted. The purpose of the garments in the warm color palette was to “hide her rock-hard right-wing views by radiating a motherly warmth,” said a writer for online magazine “The Daily Beast.”
Several others put forward the same theory that women’s clothing (not a single dark male-cut pantsuit) was there to hide their tough attitude towards abortion and LGBT rights. Others felt she was dressed as a caricature of how conservatives envision a good mother.
But something that has not been noticed So much, if anything, is that Amy Coney Barrett, seen in a purely modern way, was a total success.
Because no matter what values were projected into her choice of clothing, she was exactly right on the spot when it came to the color scale. Not least when it comes to the lavender blouse she wore with a heather lilac suit.
Because dusty shades of lilac and lavender have been the hot trend colors of 2020, and they are expected to continue to be so next year. The hues have even been called “millennial purple.” Soft colors whose ability to flatter most skin and hair tones have been hailed in the fashion industry as if it were a whole new color that was suddenly discovered.
But that, of course, is not the case.
The purple color used to everyday clothing arose by chance already in the mid-nineteenth century.
A young chemist named William Henry Perkins then tried to develop a synthetic alternative to quinine, a malaria drug that the British needed for their tropical colonies, using aniline. A splash of their mixture ended up on a fabric that turned purple.
A family friend, who worked in a textile factory, quickly realized the value of the discovery. “If you can get the color to stick, stand still and sell it cheap, you’ve found an equivalent to gold.” He could. The paint was suitable for washing and sunlight and cost next to nothing to produce.
A couple of years later, the influential British Queen Victoria wore a lavender dress and made pale violet a huge fashion trend in much of the world.
Later he took followers of the art movement that rejected the ugliness of industrialism and instead praised beauty, aestheticism with Oscar Wilde at the head, for himself color, which was later associated with homosexuality. And not in a beneficial way.
“The Lavender Scare,” for example, calls the American historian David K. Johnson the moment when thousands of government employees were fired in the United States, suspected of homosexuality, in the waves of communist terror that Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy fired. in the early 1950s.
But in the late 1960s, the gay movement began to regain the color lavender and instead it has become a symbol of strength and pride.
If Amy Coney Barrett is aware of the history and meaning of lavender it is of course five others.
But a little funny, and undoubtedly very surprising, it would of course be if she with the color that she chose in her blouse indicated something completely different than that she is conscious of this year’s trendy color.
