Customs Dressed for Success — or for Treason By Commonplace Fun Facts on November 10, 2014 • ( Leave a comment ) Purple, the most expensive dye from Murex seashells, was reserved exclusively for Roman royalty. For anyone else to wear the color was treason. source Share this:LinkedInEmailFacebookRedditTwitterPrintTumblrPocketPinterestTelegramWhatsAppSkypeLike this:Like Loading... Related Categories: Customs, History, Laws and Lawyers, Royalty Tagged as: Colors, crime, customs, dyes, Murex, purple, Roman, Rome, royalty, seashells, treason
Purple, the most expensive dye from Murex seashells, was reserved exclusively for Roman royalty. For anyone else to wear the color was treason.
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