The Adventures of Schuyler and Charlie

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Pretty In Pink




In what may turn out to be a prophetic sartorial gesture, Schuyler Young wears seasonal pink overalls courtesy of her Aunt Shaunna (onesie is model's own). In an effort to insulate myself against the upcoming onslaught of pink i'd been warned about, i stupidly started an argument with this baby's mother about gender specific colours and whether or not girls actually do prefer pink. Well, it turns out that while our parents may have that association, chances are that their parents did not. The associations of pink and blue with babies in Western Culture has been long lived, however, up until WW2, pink was associated with boys as a diluted form of red (the fiercest colour) and blue was associated with the Virgin Mary and therefore with girls. The more things change, the more we forget how they were.

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