Comments on: Feelin kinda Sunday http://richandelizabeth.com/2009/10/11/feelin-kinda-sunday/ tookerific! Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:49:02 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dad http://richandelizabeth.com/2009/10/11/feelin-kinda-sunday/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Dad Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:43:45 +0000 http://richandelizabeth.com/?p=95#comment-33 Actually . . . Clothing manufacturers complained that greeting-card companies were confusing the issue by using pink for girls and blue for boys in birth announcements. The greeting-card people pointed to Gainsborough's "Blue Boy" and "Pinky" as proof they were right. The debate continued for decades. in 1939, Parents magazine polled customers in a New York department store and found that, while most preferred pink for girls, about one-fifth favored blue for girls and pink for boys. The first children to be consistently color-coded by gender were the post-war baby boomers. Pink has been an exclusively feminine color for only about 40 years. (This explains all the sweet, elderly ladies who thought your son was a girl even when he was dressed all in blue.)" Source and further information: http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/pinkblue.html I copied this from somewhere. Guess it explaoins it all. Love, Dad Actually . . .
Clothing manufacturers complained that greeting-card companies were confusing the issue by using pink for girls and blue for boys in birth announcements. The greeting-card people pointed to Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy” and “Pinky” as proof they were right. The debate continued for decades. in 1939, Parents magazine polled customers in a New York department store and found that, while most preferred pink for girls, about one-fifth favored blue for girls and pink for boys. The first children to be consistently color-coded by gender were the post-war baby boomers. Pink has been an exclusively feminine color for only about 40 years. (This explains all the sweet, elderly ladies who thought your son was a girl even when he was dressed all in blue.)”
Source and further information:
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/pinkblue.html

I copied this from somewhere. Guess it explaoins it all.

Love, Dad

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