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How did the colours blue and pink come associated with gender
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over a year ago
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I’m sure I read something somewhere that pink was originally a more mainly colour as it had connections with red/blood and that blue was traditionally more feminine?
Of course I could be talking out of my well formed behind as usual lol |
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"I’m sure I read something somewhere that pink was originally a more mainly colour as it had connections with red/blood and that blue was traditionally more feminine?
Of course I could be talking out of my well formed behind as usual lol "
You are right!! Pink was a masculine colour.
Purple was a royal colour, and a sign of virility. Some countries even had laws preventing anyone other than royalty having purple.
I am only 80% sure of the next one, as I cant remember it all. But, all children were girls until puberty in arounf 14C. Only then were some boys.
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"I’m sure I read something somewhere that pink was originally a more mainly colour as it had connections with red/blood and that blue was traditionally more feminine?
Of course I could be talking out of my well formed behind as usual lol
You are right!! Pink was a masculine colour.
Purple was a royal colour, and a sign of virility. Some countries even had laws preventing anyone other than royalty having purple.
I am only 80% sure of the next one, as I cant remember it all. But, all children were girls until puberty in arounf 14C. Only then were some boys.
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All children were girls? Eh? |
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"Was a topic at work last week .
At times in history it was the other way around. I believe it didn't really become universal until the 20th century.
Cal"
Was just about to say the same! |
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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago
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"Was a topic at work last week .
At times in history it was the other way around. I believe it didn't really become universal until the 20th century.
Cal
Was just about to say the same! "
Yep and not even 'at times' history was pretty gender neutral on a practical basis.
The main colour for children's clothes was white because it was easy to bleach, both boys and girls wore dresses for easy movement while learning to walk (and clothing could be reused irrespective of the gender of children.)
It's why christening gowns are gowns regardless of who is being christened
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I am only 80% sure of the next one, as I cant remember it all. But, all children were girls until puberty in arounf 14C. Only then were some boys.
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Age 14 or the 14th century ?
In the Bible baby Moses is referred to as a boy |
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"Was a topic at work last week .
At times in history it was the other way around. I believe it didn't really become universal until the 20th century.
Cal"
Google says it started in USA in the 1940s |
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"Was a topic at work last week .
At times in history it was the other way around. I believe it didn't really become universal until the 20th century.
Cal
Google says it started in USA in the 1940s "
So the middle of the 20th century  |
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All children were girls? Eh?
They would refer to all children as girls until they hit puberty.
Only then did they differentiate between girls and boys."
Not entirely accurate. From a BBC History website:
"Nor have boys always even been called boys. Until the late 15th century the word ‘girl’ simply means a child of either sex. Boys, where they had to be differentiated, were referred to as ‘knave girls’ and girls in the female sense were called ‘gay girls’. Equally a boy could be a ‘knave child’ and a girl a ‘maiden child’." |
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Sometime after WW2, companies realised they could boost the sales of baby/child products if they made parents buy them multiple times in different colours. Eg you'd buy clothes in blue if you had a boy and instead reusing them if your next kid was a girl you'd buy everything again in pink. Before that babies and kids mainly wore white gowns. |
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