Why is Pink a girls colour?

af_thefragile · 15-10-2012 06:46PM #1

Why is it that some colours have become gender specific?
Like pink for girls and blue for guys?
Why can't a man drive around in a pink car and be taken seriously?

Boombastic · 15-10-2012 06:48PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Why is it that some colours have become gender specific?
Like pink for girls and blue for guys?
Why can't a man drive around in a pink car and be taken seriously?

Up until 1920's pink was the colour for boys and blue for girls,,it got changed sometime around then not sure why-source QI:)

juan.kerr · 15-10-2012 06:48PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Why can't a man drive around in a pink car and be taken seriously?

In fairness, I don't think ANYONE driving around in a pink car can be taken seriously.

full_irish · 15-10-2012 06:48PM

cus pink makes the boys wink.... next question

JuliusCaesar · 15-10-2012 06:49PM

Ah it's very recent.

a June 1918 article from the trade publication Earnshaw's Infants' Department said, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”

Martyn1989 · 15-10-2012 06:51PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Why is it that some colours have become gender specific?
Like pink for girls and blue for guys?
Why can't a man drive around in a pink car and be taken seriously?

Because lads who wear it look like benders

GhostInTheRuins · 15-10-2012 06:51PM

Here is the answer, kind of.

Talib Fiasco · 15-10-2012 06:52PM

If anything pink is a lads colour too...especially with teenagers. I've got a pink shirt and it's always a big hit with girls in any club/pub/party I wear it to. I must actually buy another one :pac:

juan.kerr · 15-10-2012 06:53PM

Martyn1989 wrote: »

Because lads who wear it look like benders

Yeah, it's funny how the guys who wear pink don't seem to realise it though.

juan.kerr · 15-10-2012 06:54PM

TheComeUp wrote: »

If anything pink is a lads colour too...especially with teenagers. I've got a pink shirt and it's always a big hit with girls in any club/pub/party I wear it to. I must actually buy another one :pac:

See above.

3ndahalfof6 · 15-10-2012 06:55PM

They are the holders of the pink promise land, it would be foolish of them to not like it.

Ghost Buster · 15-10-2012 06:55PM

Boombastic wrote: »

Up until 1920's pink was the colour for boys and blue for girls,,it got changed sometime around then not sure why-source QI:)

QI is the source of all knowledge..in my case at least

WIZE · 15-10-2012 06:55PM

TheComeUp wrote: »

If anything pink is a lads colour too...especially with teenagers. I've got a pink shirt and it's always a big hit with girls in any club/pub/party I wear it to. I must actually buy another one :pac:

Girls love gay guys

Talib Fiasco · 15-10-2012 06:57PM

juan.kerr wrote: »

See above.

completely irrelevant...my pink shirt literally pulled for me all by itself on more than one occasion...get with the times...

Talib Fiasco · 15-10-2012 06:58PM

WIZE wrote: »

Girls love gay guys

I've nothing against gay people, but seriously grow the hell up.

Martyn1989 · 15-10-2012 06:59PM

TheComeUp wrote: »

completely irrelevant...my pink shirt literally pulled for me all by itself on more than one occasion...get with the times...

A pink shirt is not a personality

davet82 · 15-10-2012 06:59PM

Martyn1989 wrote: »

Because lads who wear it look like benders

It not pink its salmon :cool:

Martyn1989 · 15-10-2012 07:01PM

davet82 wrote: »

It not pink its salmon :cool:

To be fair I wear purple shirts, tshirts, ties etc. Ive yellow tshirts (not shirts though). I just don't like pink so I wouldn't wear it.

juan.kerr · 15-10-2012 07:01PM

TheComeUp wrote: »

completely irrelevant...my pink shirt literally pulled for me all by itself on more than one occasion...get with the times...

:rolleyes: Touchy...Boast about wearing pink and you will get slagged. Fact of life, I'm afraid.

admiralofthefleet · 15-10-2012 07:02PM

nothing wrong with pink, i have a pink tie. its 'salmon' if anyone askd me what colour it is

Talib Fiasco · 15-10-2012 07:02PM

Martyn1989 wrote: »

A pink shirt is not a personality

Attraction is the first step though...always is...once you get a girl attracted to you it's harder to fail.

Dangerous Man · 15-10-2012 07:02PM

I wear pink shirts. I also wear blue shirts. I wear black shirts. I wear plaid shirts. I wear white shirts.

It's a colour. It's a colour. If a colour bothers you you're a moron.

3ndahalfof6 · 15-10-2012 07:04PM

And so it is, it has now turned into why men like,love, pink.

Talib Fiasco · 15-10-2012 07:04PM

juan.kerr wrote: »

:rolleyes: Touchy...Boast about wearing pink and you will get slagged. Fact of life, I'm afraid.

By immature old fashioned people..ironic it sounds I know. But seriously there's nothing wrong with pink. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't be caught dead in pink pants, socks, jumpers or shoes but a shirt and tshirt yeah no problem. Even once upon a time I'd pink jocks which were just for a laugh.

And hey the pink shirt attracts the pink p*ssy :cool:

af_thefragile · 15-10-2012 07:05PM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I wear pink shirts. I also wear blue shirts. I wear black shirts. I wear plaid shirts. I wear white shirts.

It's a colour. It's a colour. If a colour bothers you you're a moron.

Would you be driven in a pink car?
Not to some mates party but say to an interview for a job?

corktina · 15-10-2012 07:05PM

TheComeUp wrote: »

completely irrelevant...my pink shirt literally pulled for me all by itself on more than one occasion...get with the times...

yeah mine pulls too...until I actually put it on...odd that...

Manic Moran · 15-10-2012 07:06PM

It still is a man's colour in various Western countries. For example, the branch colour (Waffenfarbe) of the German tank troops is (and was in WWII) pink.

NTM

Dangerous Man · 15-10-2012 07:11PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Would you be driven in a pink car?
Not to some mates party but say to an interview for a job?

What - would I drive to a job interview in a pink car? I suppose what you're implying is that there are those out there who wouldn't take me seriously if I drove to an interview in a pink car? Is that what you're saying?

juan.kerr · 15-10-2012 07:12PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

It still is a man's colour in various Western countries. For example, the branch colour (Waffenfarbe) of the German tank troops is (and was in WWII) pink.

NTM

Explains why they lost the Wars maybe.

Morag · 15-10-2012 07:15PM

Boombastic wrote: »

Up until 1920's pink was the colour for boys and blue for girls,,it got changed sometime around then not sure why-source QI:)

Two things that helped change it, the Nazis put pink triangles on the homosexuals which were put in concentration camps and then when the first Paris fashion week happened after the end of WW2 the most abundant material that was spare was the pink which was being used to make parachutes for dawn/dusk drops, so the lines which were photographed and influences fashion for the coming year and indeed years to come was pink for women.

af_thefragile · 15-10-2012 07:16PM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

What - would I drive to a job interview in a pink car? I suppose what you're implying is that there are those out there who wouldn't take me seriously if I drove to an interview in a pink car? Is that what you're saying?

Kinda, yeah.

And lately wearing pink shirts, ties etc. has become fairly gender neutral. But would you wear pink trousers or socks or wallet etc.?

Why is Pink a girls colour?

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