The colour that's (almost) as good as a facelift
telegraph.co.ukAnne Hathaway at a Bulgari party in a daffodil yellow oversized shirt and matching shorts.In real life however, it’s a tricky one.
While strong bold sweeps of yellow are wonderful mood lifters on walls and furnishings, the same cannot be said of its egregious effect on many skins, whatever their ethnicity.At the sulfurous outer reaches of its spectrum, strong, egg yolky and sunflower yellows, which can be so impactful on the catwalk (“look”, it seems designers are saying, “a colour, but not an icky pastel one” ) often drain pale complexions and turn olive ones like mine ashy.
It’s not surprising it’s had mixed reviews throughout history, associated with both youthfulness and fertility and cowardice, cuckoldry and foolishness (Malvolio’s yellow leg ribbons).But last weekend, yellow got a royal rebrand.
Since the Duchess of Cambridge debuted her pale lemon Emilia Wickstead dress on the Buck House balcony, searches for yellow hats have increased 300 percent, according to Google, while “yellow wedding guest dress” and yellow shoe searches have spurted by 298 percent and 170 percent since last Friday.This is hardly new territory for Kate.
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