FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.
It was an eye-popping magenta purple
HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...
...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.
(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).
They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.
Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.
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Everyone in Ponyville knows these two have a thing going on, except for these two.
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I love this roly-poly happy chonklet so much. 1929. Source.
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Ludovic Alleaume - Des mains de femme (ca. 1920)
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Erkki Koponen (Finnish, 1899-1996)
Feeling Overwhelmed, 1924
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Sculptures by Luis Perlotti, 1928
At the entrance to Cementerio de Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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