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“Hunting Pink” is a term given to a light shade of red, as featured in the red stripes on the Steven Alan’s hunting jacket featured above. English hunting law once granted hunting rights only to royalty- this law was strictly and morbidly enforced. According to one site, a penalty for unofficial hunting may have included death.

Wearing ‘hunting pink’ marked the king and his comrades as they hunted common land. The red was originally made from cactus beetles- their color extracted with acid.

Fact Credit: Hunting Pink facts from Dressing The Man, Alan Flusser, p. 290; English hunting right facts from elizabethan-era.org.uk