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How did the colours blue and pink come associated with gender

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By *usman 199 OP   Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Was a topic at work last week .

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

Is it all over the news?

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"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

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By *amantha TSWoman
over a year ago

Swindon

Pink for girls, blue for boys.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Girls mainly gravitate to link. Boys don't. That's mature .. exceptions of course

But mainly

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By *isterE ManMan
over a year ago

Taunton


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Goes back to the stone age apparently, google it.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"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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By *isterE ManMan
over a year ago

Taunton


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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.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some guys look great in a Pink top..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The same with heels on shoes. Court shoes where worn by noble men attending the kings court and was seen as status.

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By *agic.MMan
over a year ago

Orpington

What type of blue are we talking about? Bright blue...light blue...dark blue...navy blue? There's only one of those that I would personally wear

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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

Burnleyish (She/They)


"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

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/pink-used-common-color-boys-blue-girls/

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


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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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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"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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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"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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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


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So the middle of the 20th century "

Yes. Very recent

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

I often wear pink shirts to work.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In modern age it is more or less a marketing trick, a bit like Santa and Coke.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blue was historically linked to Virgin Mary. Red and blue are symbolic in Christianity.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


" Red and blue are symbolic in Christianity."

Liverpool and Chelsea

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"

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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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

I wear something pink every day. I regularly get comments about it and they generally come with a raised eye. FFS get a life, it's a colour.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I often wear pink shirts to work.

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And you wear it well

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire


"I often wear pink shirts to work.

And you wear it well "

Thank you - I shall now buy some more

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

Knaves were boys, maidens girls.

I think knaves were lower class boy servants if my old history teacher was right.

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By *rincess PhoenixWoman
over a year ago

Southampton

I think pink shirts look great on a guy!

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