Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Anii 1890" in Romanian language version.
[...] Thomas Beer [...] christened the 1890s 'the manly decade' not in reference to Perkin's discovery but as a nod to James McNeill Whistler's quip—'Mauve? Mauve is just pink trying to be purple'— which for Beer captured the pretentions of the fin-de-siècle U. S. Culture.
Mauve became the color of high fashion; the late 1850s and early 1860s constituted the 'Mauve Decade'.
