From my point of view, besides being hard on the eyes to begin with, this color combination doesn’t work because red and green simply cancel each other out – any red of a dress looks a bit cheaper combined with green emeralds, and the glow of emeralds, less ‚deep’ anyway than in other colored stones, is flattened further against strong red. More examples:
--Previous Message-- : --Previous Message-- : I quite like it. : : Any other examples of red/green worn with : emeralds/rubys? : : This combination of Queen Silvia's was not : very appealling IMHO: : : : But even less successful is the way QEII has : paired the Baring ruby necklace with varying : shades of green: : :