Yellow

After contemplating yellow for a while, I did a Bible search, thinking that the colour would be mentioned in relation to the sun or radiance, but quite the opposite was true. There are only four references actually, three of which were quite yukky. The fourth had to do one of the beasts of revelation and the yukky smell of sulphur.

Hmmmm

Why then is it that we think of the sun as yellow, when in biblical terms it is white and pure? Although, when the sun is mentioned, often it relates to harvest and growth as well as sunrises and sunsets as indications of time as well as heat. If you read Ecclesiastes, there is a lot about life "under the sun", meaning life on earth without considering God.

This still does not have anything to do with yellow, right? Correct. Perhaps I read too much into the colour, and thought it had positive connotations, but even, according to Wikipedia, the colour used to be associated with cowardice and jaundice, caution (as on traffic lights) and aging - so not the most pleasing in any way. Also, sulfur is yellow, and we all know what that smells like....

So, fashionistas, for inspiration you can go to Wikipedia and get loads of colour inspiration for the future, although I'm not sure how the colour "Olive" wound up there, is that not a shade of green? Perhaps I also forgot that often yellow is used instead of gold. Now we are getting to positive connotations. The colour also often is associated with happiness, and isn't this what we all want fashion to give us? After all, isn't the Happy Face yellow and a fashion statement at that?

Not sure what else to say. I then did a search for yellow in fashion, and this yielded a few more results, but not quite what I was trying to say. Since this is part of the post about All the Colours of the Rainbow, I think I need to link this up with orange, so that the link with sunsets will become clearer, so until then.....