Why is the color pink for girls

If you recall the toys, then there will be no doubt that the toys for girls pink - the vast majority. Clothing and accessories - as well. In still diluted teenager pink color surrounded by other colors and shades, but somewhere in the subcortex remain vague recollection of that pink for the princesses. So if a boy wears a pink shirt, what kind of "wit" must inquire about his field, or orientation. What is so special about this color? Does he have some special characteristic which really makes the color of the feminine?

Vie en Rose

No special color characteristics in pink not, so it can not be blamed for the impact on our minds in a physical way. The color values ​​we invest as much as in them is investing history and culture. Just a couple of centuries ago, the world thought that the pink - the color for boys, because the red - the color of men's blood, war and power. A pink - only "dilute" the red, slightly more delicate shades symbolizing youth. Similarly, light blue was the color for girls. However, until the mid XX century, the difference between the suits for boys and girls almost was not. The main thing was - separate from the adult children's clothing. Therefore, for children sewed loose outfits reminiscent of nightgowns and dresses, and their color was totally unimportant. Since many boys wore while long hair before the "serious age," the distinguished sex of the child 10-12 years before it was virtually impossible. In adult fashion for a long time considered to be all female flowers gentle and pastel, without distinction of color. If it is not dark, so feminine. Everything changed during the war, when the need was more practical and cheap clothes non-staining and dark gray tones. On color then only look inveterate fashionista, but the world industry could not navigate to them, doing more important things.

The separation began after the Second World War. Light industry is gaining momentum and fashion cheered. The first thing the designers began to produce children's clothing, similar to adults: pants for boys, dresses for girls. The second thing - introduced a color separation. Benchmark has become a trend of 50-ies, which launched the "first lady" of the United States Mamie Eisenhower. She was so fond of pink, that wore it constantly, and the inauguration of the president appeared in a very feminine, marked a magnificent dress soft pink hue. It was said over the years, and soon there was a popular musical Funny Face, there are pink, too, sang the ode, designating it as the color of the successful modern women.

Finally, the color pink as the color of femininity entrenched in the late '80s and early' 90s. At the same time, he became a symbol of the social movement in support of breast cancer patients. "Women's" disease added a few degrees in the associative array of colors.

50 shades of pink in Russia

Inquisitive reader who knows the story, can be noted that in Russia - and the Soviet Russia as well - things were somewhat different. Even before the war children in the hospital were marked with pink and blue ribbons - girls and boys, respectively. This means that the color code of pink appeared much earlier. Indeed, the pink and blue ribbons to indicate the sex of the child goes back to the Russian Empire, but it never migrated from the world of symbols in the colors of the nursery and the more adult clothes.

Cause of ribbons of different colors is in the vanity Russian princes and princesses. At that time there were 2 orders that were given to people of the upper class. Order of St. Andrew was supposed to wear a blue ribbon over his shoulder and gave him away only to men. The Order of St. Catherine was similar to him, but it was worn on the pink ribbon and given only highborn ladies (but one known case where a man has received the Order). Princes tried so hard to emphasize its origin, that their children receive appropriate orders in the cradle - so the baby diaper to bandage blue or pink ribbon depending on a floor. To differentiate the floor so babies turned out to be very convenient, so the tradition has remained and after the abolition of orders.

Further colored ribbons color differentiation was not so until the moment that Soviet fashion industry began to copy the western, pink color as "color for women" in Russia and the Soviet Union are not met.

The double meaning of the

In the days when the pink appears only in women's fashion, he was perceived as rebellious. Women wore it to show its independence and strength, but with time he firmly entrenched in the culture that was perceived as traditional. But activist homosexual movement managed to "stake out" his back when he talked about the feminist, tolerance and active early. Now this is almost erased, but the word "pink" Add a negative connotation. What is interesting, the color pink to denote homosexuality was first used long before his appearance in the world of fashion, but the story is so sad that public memory is to forget or prefer to hide. Pink triangles to denote homosexuals used in the Nazi camps. It does not save the information, why this color is chosen for the stripes. It is possible that his gentle tone was directly opposed to the Nazi gray-brown and not merged with another important color-coded - yellow six-pointed star. However, this general public does not know is that the history of modern "unconventional pink" has nothing to do with the Nazis.