Toxic Waste Hoodie Dress Green Dress National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium The Dress that Killed. . . . In the 1860s, a new dye called 'Scheele's Green' became the hottest fashion trend. It was vibrant and beautiful. It was also made of In the Victorian Era, green dresses were dyed with arsenic based pigments. These 'Poison Green' dresses caused horrible physical suffering and early death. : r interestingasfuck 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