Possible Clues:

• Not so bright anymore
• Wasn't colorfast
• Not as bright as it used to be
• Lustreless
• In need of a new coat
• Washed-out, dimmed
• “She was a ____ but still lovely woman of twenty-seven” (F Scott Fitzgerald, in “a line which certain people will not let me forget”)
• Less colorful
• Temporary passion to die, not new, out-of-date
• ----- Seaside Glamour (Delays album)