How come boys and men usually don’t wear pink clothing? I know pink was “designated” for little girls long ago, but why can’t men also wear it? Its like its against the law or some such.
Oh the shame!
hmmm… interesting.
at http://express.colorcom.com i
foundthis.
Here’s what this article (from a site on gay rights) has to say (paraphrasing.)
A certain Leslie Feinberg, in several books (including one entitled Beyond Pink and Blue) has claimed that around the year 1900 the customary color for boys was pink and for girls was blue, pink being too “hot” a colour for girls and blue too “soothing” a colour for boys.
This was changed by the popularity of two paintings, The Blue Boy by Gainsborough and Pinkie by Lawrence. The site claims that the exhibit originally caused much uproar due to the “inappropriate” colours chosen for the boy and girl, but their enduring popularity changed children’s fashions.
The only pink thing I see men commonly wear nowadays are pink long-sleeved dress shirts.
I think you should start a new trend in men’s fashion… and the center piece of this trend should be PINK!
BRING IT BACK VANILLA! MAKE IT COOL!
Please don’t. When was it they tried to bring pink dress shirts back? Late 70’s Early 80’s? It, like most fashion ideas of the time, was a horrible, evil, idea. I realize that 20 years from now the “french blue” that was so hot a couple of years ago will look silly, but not as silly as those goddamn pink dress shirts*. Almost made one pine for the days of orange shirts (Remember Barney Miller?)
A couple of years ago, I walking down Market Street in San Francisco, and I saw a man wearing a pink business suit. I wonder if he had it custom made?
Rose
pink comes “in many colours” or hues… IMHO, pink looks wonderful on Latinos, African-American men. The rosy hues against brown skin is wonderful and hasn’t really gone out of style. Take a good look around you.
A Brother at my high school had a fantastic pink seersucker suit. He was by far the coolest teacher, mainly because he thought all the priests were dorks.
But, I say, the hell with bringing back pink as a man’s color. ** Bring back seersucker suits! **
Man, doesn’t anyone here watch the Simpsons? Don’t you realize that if you wear a pink shirt to work, they can have you institutionalized??
Must get back to conforming now…
I second SuaSponte. I wear the uniform charcoal wool suit to job interviews to try to fit in and I roast! Don’t these guys know you are supposed to have put charcoal away after Easter, fercrissakes!
This is what happens when you allow children into positions of power in the business world. Stupidity takes over.
Now, that seersucker in a pale blue, with a white shirt (French cuffs and my tractor cufflinks), very loud tie, and a white straw Panama hat. Now I’m in business!
But not pink. Do you think I’m some kind of pink donut eater?
The husband of a woman I work with is extremely color blind. He can only differentiate between light colors and dark ones, not the colors themselves. After hearing a classmate roundly teased for wearing pink, he swore he would never wear anything pink. He is adamant about this.
However, his mother and his wife constantly purchase pink t-shirts and business shirts for him because they are generally cheaper (here in the south, real men don’t wear pink anything!) but because he only sees it as being a light color, they tell him they are grey and/or yellow.
He gets many curious stares when he starts into a tirade about men wearing pink clothes while he is wearing a nice powder-pink polo shirt! His friends won’t tell him because they think it is funny and they think he is ridiculous for being so anti-pink in the first place!
I wear pink tee-shirts all the time. I used to wear pink dress shirts as a kid and people thought I looked rather dapper. I think it’s a little silly to just say that a color is “bad” or isn’t meant for a particular gender.