Edwardian St. Patrick's Day Greeting Card - Woman in Green

A woman stands in three-quarter pose, chin raised and gaze fixed on a distant horizon—one hand holding aloft a tiny potted shamrock plant with the reverence of a religious offering—and the weirdness becomes apparent: she is so aggressively committed to green that her enormous silk dress, large bonnet with matching bow, and decorative ribbons at her waist form a unified emerald monument to a single color. Ellen Clapsaddle's finest contribution to psychological warfare, really, because the text 'The Wearing of the Green' floats beside her like a threat, and with this much coordinated fabric, it was never a suggestion. She's clearly judging everyone who dared wear blue that day.