Teal is what happens when blue and green stop fighting and decide to become hot instead.
It is giving swimming pool at 2am. Peacock feathers. Jewellery boxes. A little bit of who is SHE?
And somehow, it has been working in India forever.
India has a serious history with blue — from indigo-dyed textiles to the obsession with peacock blues and blue-greens in art, jewellery and clothing. Even the word indigo comes from the Greek indikos, meaning “from India.” Basically, India was so good at blue that we got a colour named after us.
Fun fact: Teal is named after a duck.
Not a royal family. Not some mysterious French fashion house.
A duck.
The Eurasian teal has a blue-green stripe on its head, and the colour name was first recorded in English in 1917. So technically, one of fashion's coolest colours owes its entire career to a small bird.
We respect her.
And the fashion girls agree.
Deepika Padukone has done head-to-toe teal. Tamannaah Bhatia wore a teal satin-silk Tarun Tahiliani sari, and Tahiliani himself said he started with the idea of peacock blue before becoming drawn to the richer teal.Put it next to off-white and it looks fresh. Put it next to navy and suddenly it's expensive. Put it next to pink and you've got a problem — in the best possible way.
It can be tropical, futuristic, romantic, dramatic or slightly unhinged depending on what you put around it.
Which is probably why we keep coming back to it.
Teal is blue with a personality disorder.
And honestly?
We love her for it.
