 Colour contrast became extremely important, as it was in civilian fashion.The extent to which a suit of armour was decorated depended on the wealth of the buyer, and ranged from wildly elaborate and artistic pieces such as George Clifford's famous gilded garniture to relatively simple harnesses of "white armour" overlaid with intersecting patterns of darker-coloured strips.In either case, the use of contrasting colours became a hallmark of the Greenwich style.