Red dress in the 1850s?

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To all you victorian experts: How common was it to have a ruby red ball gown in the 1850s-60s. All portraits and preserved clothing show a lot of blue, but no deep red. Wasn't it popular, was it indecent and too "sexual" to wear ruby red or is it just me who have missed it?

Eva

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another red 1880s

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http://webart.nationalmuseum.se/work/work.aspx?id=24348