Which colour is that? Dress Post 688 by Angela Lansbury
I was looking at metal soap dishes and up came an oval soap dish on the Dunelm website. It was offered in a colour which they called lilypad. My first thought was that a lily could be white or pink. Then I read a review which mentioned green. So I googled lily pad. Up came a website giving a colour reference number for lily pad green. I used to think that giving fanciful names such as heather or raspberry to clothes in clothes catalogues was a piece of marketing. Now I realise it is a more accurate way of describing colours, which may look different when photographed in daylight and in artificial light giving a yellow or other tone. On a screen the brightness may also affect colour. Lily pad came up as a muted or slate green. I used to be puzzled by magenta. Here are mystery colours and near equivalent names. 1 Amber - yellow (sometimes orange) 2 burgundy - dark red, almost brownish 3 Heather - purple pink 4 Indigo - blue 5 Khaki - creamy tan or pale yellowy brow...