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There's something about a shop plastered with photos of pixie-faced celebrities flashing V-signs that makes you covet a pair of their cast-off feathered jeans or a once-worn magenta mohair sweater. At least, that's what Charlene Choi Tsoek-jin?the younger half of the misnamed Hong Kong Canto-pop pair Twins?hopes fans will do in her new vintage clothes store, Low B Club. "I've always wanted to design my own clothes but I don't have the time," says Choi. Opening up a fashion store was the next best thing. "Since we only...
...Each image is ravishing: clouds rushing over low mountains; a sword point that slo-mo slices through drops of water; lovers curled into each other, sleeping under red silk; a sword fight in a grove of golden leaves that turn red, plum, magenta and fall like fat confetti; soldiers squatting in a circle, caked in clay; a gray landscape of dunes daubed with Cheung's turquoise gown...
...early 1860s, Bostonians were painting the town magenta and the city was stricken with a shortage of all things crimson. “Owing to the prevalence of the fashion for magenta between the years 1860 and 1864 and the inability of the members of the various athletic teams to procure crimson for their insignia, magenta was, of necessity, accepted as a poor substitute,” wrote John Blanchard, Class of 1891, in The H Book of Harvard Athletics. Frederic C. Crowninshield, Class of 1866, who was a cousin of the rower who bought the original kerchiefs with Eliot...
Though the University archives bear no trace of Union College’s involvement in Harvard’s return to crimson, the small school in Schenectady, N.Y., insists its role in the color change was central. For Union, too, had a similar love affair with magenta in the mid-19th century. In 1866 a committee of Union undergraduates chose magenta as the school’s official color, according to Union archivist Ellen Fladger. Fladger says that when Union and Harvard faced off in an 1875 Rowing Association Regatta, “a crisis ensued when each team claimed...
Faculty, students and alumni met in Holden Chapel on May 6, 1875, to end the color war once and for all. Though the group was temporarily deadlocked between magenta and crimson, The Magenta reported that the tide of public opinion turned after a speech by “the man who caused all the trouble.” The unnamed speaker said that a decade earlier he had bought magenta handkerchiefs for the crew team only because of a lack of the crimson variety. He “completely silenced the skeptics,” The Magenta reported. A large...