Was there some kind of real-world instance or happening we can point to that caused purple to become the “royal colour”?
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> Purple’s elite status stems from the rarity and cost of the dye originally used to produce it.
>Purple fabric used to be so outrageously expensive that only rulers could afford it. The dye initially used to make purple came from the Phoenician trading city of Tyre, which is now in modern-day Lebanon. Fabric traders obtained the dye from a small mollusk that was only found in the Tyre region of the Mediterranean Sea.
Do you really need a more simplified explanation than the top Google result?
I wish people would stop using the subreddit for every random question that pops into their head. It’s meant to ask questions about things that you need a more simplified explanation for.
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