Emerald Green Strapless Puffy Midi Tulle Dress Fashion Lady Toxic Green Dress Stock Photo 140200921 Shutterstock Even relationships with your clothing can be toxic. Scheele's Green is a yellowish green pigment invented in 1775 and made from sodium carbonate and arsenious oxideAKA, arsenic green. We were so 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 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