Elegant Green Sequin Dress with High Slit Size 00 Color Green Jovani 3278 Manhattandress Scheele's green was the most fashionable colour for the Victorian elite. Unfortunately the dye combined copper and arsenic and resulted in skin cancer, killing hundreds of textile workers. Did someone say those SCHEELE'S GREEN Victorian Europe was said to be bathed in green thanks to a newly developed dye called Scheele's green. Turns out the color was to die for in more ways than one. See Scheele's Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death