Video belly dance 10.2007
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Gray color
Gray color isn’t expressive, but it is perfectly combined with other colors and gives us different opportunities to diversify our costumes. Gray color itself means insensibility. This color was color of common people. It was associated with poverty, hopelessness, and wretchedness. Ancient Romans associated gray-blue color with envy. In ancient East people strewed their heads with ashes to show their grief.
Gray color is a color of a dust and ashes, it goes in contrast with bright, multicolored world, and it reminds us mortal about caducity of their life, color of boredom and melancholy.
During of late Revival epoch gray became valued. It became a color of grace, elegance, and nobleness. Florentine noblemen wore gray velvet and brocade, Spanish princesses and Dutch women wore gray atlas. Wigs, men and female dress, Gobelins, furniture’s upholstery, wall-papers were gray. You can saw gray color and its shades everywhere it was possible.
In XIX and XX centuries gray color was considered as most practical color in clothes, in an interior. The beauty of gray wool, furs, and wood was estimated. Grey became a color of elegance, discriminating taste.
In east dances costumes’ gray color doesn’t use even as decoration. They prefer multicolored, bright, iridescent colors, which show us a beauty of this world around us.
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