"Alice Blue" was a light blue with a hint of gray, to match her eyes. . .

 

"Victorian prudery was giving way to the freer and easier style of the Edwardians, and it was a happy time for non-conformity. The newspapers were filled with stories about her [Alice] -- where she went, what she said, whom she saw, and especially what she wore. the clothes and cartwheelhats of the period seemed made to order for her haughty and sensual Gibson Girl looks, and her favorite blue-gray color, which matched her steely eyes, was the fashion rage known as 'Alice Blue.' Alice became a favorite name for babies, and an adoring public sang 'Alice Blue Gown' and 'Alice, Where Art Thou?' "

[Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, A Life, pp 431]

 

Many areas on the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) were painted "Alice Blue", and many of the materials to do with the ship back in the 1980's in preparation for its comminsioning had that color.

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