What about the rule that female guests should never slip into a dress in any shade of white to a wedding?

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I'm not sure I ever thought of stoves coming in a shade other than grey or white, but full marks to the PR for ingenuity and for compelling me to write about a color I have had a burgeoning appreciation for since becoming a refugee from black some three years ago.

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While the financial services industry is mostly black and white, the American investor is a varying shade of gray.

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And lungworts (Pulmonaria), one of the first shade-loving perennials to return each spring, have white polka dots covering their spiky green leaves.

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Others sit by the roadside in the shade of birch trees, bikes propped up next to them on verges dotted with pink and white cosmos.

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