The Mauve Decade
by Judith Hollenberger Dunlap. Originally published for the November/December 2012 issue of Finery. Mauve was the first color of aniline dye discovered by William Henry Perkins as he searched for an artificial way to make quinine. The aniline dyes he developed in the latter half of the 19th century opened up fashion to an array of new colors, but mauve […]