A woman with an unusual kind of
lifestyle, has gotten a lot of people
stunned after she was found out to have worn only one color for years.
Elizabeth Eaton Rosenthal, a.k.a. Elizabeth
Sweetheart, is a fine artist in Brooklyn, New
York.
The woman has been dressing from head to
toe in various shades of green for the last 20
years. To her, green is the happiest, most
positive color in the world, so she can’t
imagine wearing anything else.
According to The New York Times, ‘The
Green Lady of Carroll Gardens’, as Elizabeth
is most widely known, has always had a
thing for experimenting. At one point in her
life she wore only 1930s print dresses,
before moving on to single colors, like silver,
pink, purple, blue and finally green, which
she surprisingly never got bored of. Her
passion for green started with some home-
mixed green nail polish and a neon lime
streak in her hair, but it quickly spread to
her clothing and her home, as well.
Today, she always sports green hair, an
attire made up of different hues of green,
and most of the things she buys, from
towels and skin care products to furniture
and appliances, are also green.
“I never planned for any of this to happen,”
Sweetheart told The New York Times. “It’s
not an obsession. It just happened naturally.
I’ve always used color, collected color. Maybe
it was because I grew up in Nova Scotia, and
after moving to New York, I missed having
green all around me.”
All she knows is that green makes her
happy, helps her deal with daily problems, so
she wouldn’t dream of wearing any other
color.
“It’s the most positive color in the whole
world,” Elizabeth says. “It makes me feel
happy. You can wake up really miserable in
the morning and then you get dressed and
turn green and it’s quite wonderful.” But that’s
not her only motivation for wearing green
exclusively. The 75-year-old artist also does it
because it makes people happy. “It’s for other
people,” she told The South Brooklyn Post. ”
I like to make people happy. And for the
children. I was really not an outgoing person.
But I say hello to anyone who talks to me and
I love it. The young children love it.”
“It’s just amazing traveling with her,”
Elizabeth’s husband Dylan confirms. “People
shout from cars, children flock to her on the
train and tourists take pictures of her. The
most diverse people call to her from across
the street, give her thumbs up, call her ‘Miss
Green.’”
But finding everything you want to wear in a
single color can’t be very easy, especially
when you’ve been doing it for 20 years. The
Green Lady shops for the staple of her
wardrobe – green overalls, of which she has
almost 30 pairs – at stores like GapKids,
The Children’s Place and Old Navy’s, but
even if she doesn’t find what she’s looking
for in green, she can always dye it. She
‘cooks’ a pot of green dye every morning, to
dye her hair strands and all her garments.
Everything she wears, from her underwear
and socks to the clothes on her back and
the butterfly hair clips has to be green.
Elizabeth’s house is mostly green as well,
from the front door to her backyard, and
everywhere in between.
Her bed linens, the window curtains, chairs,
and even things like pots, pans, pens and
hygiene products, they are all green.
“I can’t even sleep unless I’m all in green,” the
Green Lady told Patch.com.
Asked if she ever gets tired of green,
Elizabeth Sweetheart said “Oh no, never. It
keeps getting better every day.”
The Green Lady of Brooklyn is not the only
color-obsessed person we’ve featured on
Oddity Central. Five years ago, we wrote
about Charlotte price, a woman obsessed
with the color pink, and in 2014 we featured
Sevenraj, an Indian real-estate agent who
surrounded himself with red and white.
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