Colour meaning in 1920's Berlin

Although colour was still seen and symbolised the same way as in the book 'If It's Purple Someones Going To Die'. Prostitutes would wear certain colours so the men knew what kind of services they would offer. This is something I need to consider when designing my historical version as these colours could represent something that is completely different to the character.

[Gordon.M. 2008/09]

BROWN- The men loved boots and shoes to be worn during sex

COLBOLT BLUE- Women to be in control (dominating women)

GOLD- Physical torture 

GREEN- Psychological enslavement (mental manipulation)

RED- The men love to be spanked on the bum while they are tied up. 

SCARLET- Women dress the men up as transvestites for humiliation

There are also different meanings for the colour of the womens laces, however these are very extreme  and you won't be able to see the shoes in the picture so I felt this didn't matter as much as the other colours. 

In the film 'Cabaret' Sally Bowles wears Green nail varnish. If this is to be taken literal and from the meaning of the prostitutes which in Sally's case I feel matches her character she wears it because she is a mental manipulator. She makes all the men she is around fall in love with her and give her things without her having to do much for it!