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Beautiful Mignon image from the early 1910s. Interesting color choices by the colorist. Green, white and violet (or purple) were the colors chosen in 1908 by the Woman's Social and Political Union (the WSPU, out of which grew the UK suffragette movement), to symbolize their struggle. Green was for hope, white for purity, and purple for dignity. It has also been suggested that green white and violet was a color code: G reen W hite V iolet, for G ive W omen the V ote! Cool, huh? Now, this card was probably produced in Germany, so you might ask, would a woman doing assembly line coloration of postcards in a factory setting to put bread on the table in Germany, feel a kind of solidarity with women in England trying to better their lot? Hmmm. It's possible, no? Suffragettes wore ribboned badges and jewelry in these colors as a means of self-identification, and the colors did get a fair amount of publicity. The famous Edwardian costume designer, Lucile, designed a dress in those colors for a theatrical production, and named the dress, "The Protest."
Food for thought, and probably no more than a coincidence, but in any event, a gorgeous card.
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