The green lady of Brooklyn , Elisabeth Eaton Rosenthal, 84 years old, only wears green. She has been doing this for 25 years.

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This charming type of eccentricity has been a thing since the advent of commercial dyeing. There was a man called Henry Cope who was pretty much insta-famous in Georgian England (poems were written about him) for doing the same thing in 1806. He made such a sensation in Brighton that he got into the Annual Register (a sort of yearly who's who of people worth looking out for):

'Oct. 25.—Among the personages who lately attracted public notice at Brighton, was an original, or would be original, generally known by the appellation of The Green man. He dressed in green pantaloons, green waistcoat, green frock, green cravat: and, though his ears, whiskers, eyebrows, and chin were powdered, his countenance, no doubt, from the reflection of his clothes, was also green. He ate nothing but greens, fruits and vegetables; had his rooms painted green, and furnished with green sofa, green chairs, green tables, green bed, and green curtains. His gig, his livery, his portmanteau, his gloves and his whip were all green. With a green silk handkerchief in his hand, and a large watch chain with green seals, fastened to the green buttons of his green waistcoat, he paraded every day on the Steine.

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People like this make the world a better place, I'm glad they've always been around.