Green and Purple
Friday 26th October, 2018
Colour combinations

The purple in Monday's post goes very well with green. I don't yet have my own photos of the two together, but have a look at Fashionising.com's "Coloured trousers for men: how to wear them this winter"†. This thumbnail is taken from there, and shows one of several schemes they suggest.
Man wearing purple trousers and light green velvet jacket

I like green and purple. More people should wear it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find many other examples of this combination on the web. I've seen engravings of 18th century French courtiers wearing such colours, but Google wasn't helpful in locating them online. The nearest I came was an article about court fashion during the reign of Louis XIV in the Serbian blog Moda Nekad i Sad (Fashion Then and Now)‡. There are two pictures which approximate the colour scheme I'm trying to describe:
French purple trousers and light green coat French purple trousers and light green coat

Footnotes

†"Coloured trousers for men: how to wear them this winter" by Nicoleta Parascan, Fashionising.com, 9th December 2013. This is the right-hand frame of a composite photo captioned "Purple coloured pants at Dirk Bikkembergs, Paul Smith and Etro, F/W '13".
http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b--colored-trousers-pants-for-men-67643.html

‡"Luj XIV" ("Louis XIV") by Marina Skrinjik Ćorić, Moda Nekad i Sad (Fashion Then and Now). The blog is by Marina Skrinjik Ćorić at the School of Design in Belgrade; she says that her many illustrated posts are to compensate for the lack of Serbian-language literature on costume history and fashion.
https://modanekadisad.wordpress.com/istorija-kostima-u-slikama/kostim-xvii-veka/luj-xiv/