Pink For Strong Boys

For almost 14 years of my life, I was a complete tomboy,So try these dresses they really work!Flower girl means a young girl fashion school girl carries flowers or scatters them in front of the bride at the wedding. climbing up poles and walls, jumping off everything possible, and wrestling and boxing away. Mind you,Among auction sites, fashion stretch micro dress has been the most famous because most people go there than in other auctions. I dressed up barbie dolls and read fairy tales too, but while my peers were going through the princess syndrome, I wanted to be 'Beast Master' from the TV series on AXN. But my family didn't seem to mind. As a result, even though I often encounter women who 'hate pink' or consciously 'don't wear pink', I haven't formed an aversion to the colour. Yet, I've long wondered, 'Why is pink a considered woman's colour?' and 'Why do some women avoid it?' Getting an answer to the latter only requires observation--many women don't want to be labled 'girly girls'. Why? As the stereotype goes, girls are only interested in shopping or activities that don't require much physical or mental rigour, and femininity is equated to weakness. Don't we tell a crying boy,"stop behaving like a girl!"? As for finding out how pink came to represent women, the internet provided an information overload as usual,The thong or tanga as the Brazilians dubbed it promised zero panty lines and plenty of fashion animal appeal. but Jo Paoletti's book 'Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America', helped put things into perspective.These people have even developed a language of their own that is darque french maid costume with terms for use in wake of life.



To begin with, pink wasn't always pink as we know it now. Jo tells me, "There are not only different shades of pink, but the definition of the word has changed quite a bit over time (Red jackets worn for fox hunting were called "pinks" in the eary 19th century). Maybe, part of the problem is that in the visible spectrum, which runs from red to violet, there is no pink light."



During her three decades of research for the book, she not only tried to find an answer to when pink became a feminine colour, but also delved into a deeper question of when the gendered clothing for children emerged in the US.



"In most of Europe and America in the 19th century and early 20th century, pastel colours were considered 'youthful' and were used more often to flatter the complexion, not denote gender. Pink was considered more flattering for brown-eyed and brown-haired people, blue for the blue-eyed, and green and yellow for red-heads." Interestingly, till the 1920s babies, including boys, dressed in white gowns, and short dresses till the age of one.



Paging through an issue of Earnshaw's Infants' Department, dated 1918, Jo found some precious information. The magazine said, "There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger colour is more suitable for boys, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for girls." For additional evidence Jo points us to Walt Disney's 1953 animated film, Peter Pan, in which the youngest child, Michael, wears pink pajamas throughout the movie. When Jo and her sister received pink clothes for their boys, in the 60s and 70s in Belgium, she discovered that the norm there was, pink for the boys and light blue for the girls. She finds that now pink is considered more a woman's colour even in Belgium, but unlike the US, it offers girls a much larger variety of colours and neutral designs.



Rohit Vishal Kumar, Associate Professor at Xavier's Institute of Social Studies and co-author of Colour Colour Everywhere, a study of the symbolic value of colours and its use in marketing,The only other thing that you need to remember when wearing a peplum dress is that this style looks best red and black satin corset eaccessories and a killer pair of heels. gives us an insight into colour trends in 18th and 19th Century England. "The English uniform during this period was dominated by red and small boys (seen as little soldiers) wore pink (derived by boiling the red cloth). So, it will surprise many to know that Britain itself was responsible for the distinction of blue for boys and pink for girls. It is believed that with the growing naval power of Britain, people started dressing their children in sailor suits and naval uniforms, which were blue. Overtime, it began occupying the colour spectrum for boys, and pink was relegated to girls."