![]() ![]() In 1927, a chart published in Time magazine summarized the recommended hues at major department stores in the United States: six said pink for boys and blue for girls four said the opposite. Paoletti summarized the evolution of pink and blue associations with girls and boys: "It is clear that pink-blue gender coding was known in the late 1860s but was not dominant until the 1950s in most parts of the United States and not universal until a generation later." Styles and colors formerly considered neutral, including flowers, dainty trim, and the color pink, became more associated with only girls and women. Birth announcements and baby books used both colors well into the 1950s, and then gradually became accepted as feminine and masculine colors. Pink and blue were used together as "baby colors". ![]() During the period 1900-1930, the fashions of young boys began to change in style, but not color. First half of the 20th century Ĭhildren's clothing began to be differentiated by gender in matters of cut, pockets, images, and decoration, but not by color. ![]() There was no agreement among manufacturers about which colors were feminine or masculine, or whether there were any such colors at all. Pierre-Auguste Renoir's son Jean sewing (1900)Īccording to Jo Paoletti, who spent two decades studying the history of pink and blue gender-coding, there were no particular color associations for girls and boys at the turn of the 20th century. ![]()
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