LeMieux Colours LeMieux Azure Collection

Le Mieux Azure Colour Sets

Discount Equestrian proudly presents the LeMieux® Azure Collection!

The beautiful Azure Collection by prestigious equestrian brand LeMieux® is said to complement coat colours such as black, bay, and grey perfectly.

Stunning products available as part of the Azure Collection include:

* Loire Classic Close Contact Square

* Loire Classic Dressage Square

* Loire Memory Close Contact Square

* Loire Memory Dressage Square

* ProSport Suede Close Contact Square

* ProSport Suede Dressage Square

* ProSport Suede GP Square

* Loire Fly Hood

* Classic Fly Hood

* Loire Polo Bandages

* Luxury Polo Bandages

* Carbon Mesh Wrap Boots

* Grafter Brushing Boots

* Vogue Fleece Headcollar & Leadrope

* Hat Silk

* My LeMieux Base Layer

* ActiveWear Short Sleeve Base Layer

* Luxe Hoodie

* Luxe T-Shirt

* Polo Shirt

* Mini LeMieux Fly Hood

* Mini LeMieux Base Layer

* Footsie Dragonfly Socks

* Baseball Cap

* Eventing Bib

* Drinks Bottle

Origin of the colour (courtesy of Wikipedia):

“The [colour] azure ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli. The French azur, the Italian azzurro, the Polish lazur, Romanian azur and azuriu, the Portuguese and Spanish azul, Hungarian azúr, and the Catalan atzur, all come from the name and [colour] of lapis lazuli.

The word was adopted into English from the French, and the first recorded use of it as a [colour] name in English was in 1374 in Geoffrey Chaucer's work Troilus and Criseyde, where he refers to ‘a broche, gold and asure’ (a brooch, gold and azure).

Some languages, such as Italian, generally consider azure to be a basic [colour], separate and distinct from blue. Some sources even go to the point of defining blue as a darker shade of azure.

According to the logic of the RGB [colour] wheel, indigo [colours] are those with hue codes between 255 and 225 (degrees), azure [colours] are those with hue codes between 195 and 225, and cyan [colours] are those with hue codes between 165 and 195. Another way of describing it could be that cyan is a mixture of blue and green light, azure is a mixture of blue and cyan light, and indigo is a mixture of blue and violet light.”