Constance was by now working on her own embroidery and exhibiting her work with the Art and Craft Society, later to become the Society of Designer Craftsmen.
Richard Box, a well-known master embroiderer and artist mentions that his first experience of Constance was as “a woman with green hair” and it is this aspect which everyone remembers. Constance has been sporting her trademark green hair since 1957. She first tried auburn and although her husband liked it she thought it looked terrible. Her hairdresser bought a tin of green powder from the Fulham Road and applied it to her hair and she loved it and has kept the color ever since. The powder was pure malachite and she remembered a gypsy coming up to her and saying, “Excuse me madam, that color is ruining your blood.”
It was simply a part of her appearance and to those who knew her it seemed normal but to strangers it looked quite remarkable and caused extreme reactions.