Yes! I was thinking about Peggy's chartreuse dress. Oddly enough I don't think of it as green. Yellow-green, perhaps, but I like the word chartreuse.But I don't recall anyone else wearing that shade ever. Also, I wonder whether most tv viewers saw Peggy's dress in color at the time.
I'm waiting for someone to break the mold again, like Ilia Kulik.
Giraffe is the new blue. :yes:
Yes! I was thinking about Peggy's chartreuse dress. Oddly enough I don't think of it as green. Yellow-green, perhaps, but I like the word chartreuse.
Anyway, that striking green dress brought a lot of publicity to the Winter Olympics.
Doesn't it resemble Yuna's Send in the Clowns dress? I love that dress
Peggy Fleming's mother made Peggy's dress in that color to honor the Grande Chartreuse Monestary near Grenoble, where the Olympics was held that year. The monks make and sell a liqueur which is that distinctive yellow-green color.
I think she hoped to get a few extra points from the French judge.
Yuna's dress is too yellow to be chartreuse, in my opinion, although there's a very slight greenish tinge. Wiki says there's green chartreuse and yellow chartreuse; but the yellow chartreuse doesn't look like Yuna's dress either.
oh goodness me. I have tears in my eyes from laughing at Toller's commentary! thank you, labgoat!
I want to thank skylark and labgoat for resolving a mystery for me I've actually wondered about. I am enough of a skating nerd that I was thinking earlier this year how odd it was that there were so few green skating dresses. (Green is my favorite color and when I design costumes for the programs I skate in my mind, they're often green!). The only three I could think of among ladies single skaters were Peggy's, Kira's absolutely gorgeous one, and a dress Nancy Kerrigan wore for Riverdance in a pro event. I thought it was really strange and it's so cool to realize there's actually a reason for that! on the subject of Peggy's, I've always kind of thought her dress influenced Nancy's 1992 SP dress (also worn in France) and Yuna's beautiful 2014 SP dress. Those three have always seemed similar to me, though when I actually compare them it's clear Peggy's was actually green whereas the other two are yellow chartreuse. I love that skating fans have enough institutional knowledge that this is a conversation we can have.
I don't think anyone looked better than her in the next two decades.
laugh but it just seems to me it's green?
The quality of the videos are not good enough, I need to do this whole thing again I guess 
