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[Rex_Tremende]

I've seen it come up a couple of times this week, and in past threads, that some of us have a hard time wearing pink. Rather than hijack those threads to say my piece about it, I thought I'd just drop something here in the off-topic forum.

First, pink is just a color. If your man's shirt is in pink, it's a man's color, just as some have noted that a kilt on a man is a man's thing, because he's a man that wears it, to paraphrase what others have said. Unless you are wearing your pink with frilly lace and ribbons, no one is going to mistake your pink for women's wear.

Second, pink is just a color, and it looks nice with khaki, complements gray, and contrasts nicely with black and navy. If you want to spice up your wardrobe, pink will get you noticed in much the same way that a kilt will, because it telegraphs confidence.

Third, pink is a color that looks particularly good with certain skin tones - anyone with even the slightest hint of a tan - and on people with dark hair, blue-eyed blond guys, and silver foxes, to name a few.

Fourth, I'd like to call your attention to a good reason to wear pink: for breast cancer awareness.

This year in America, more than 211,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 43,300 die. One woman in eight either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In addition, 1,600 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 400 will die this year. If detected early, the five-year survival rate exceeds 95%.

The Wrangler company is offering this very cool shirt to support breast cancer research and promote awareness for the need proper examinations and mamograms.

For each shirt you purchase, Wrangler will make a donation to breast cancer research (of course, it's better to give directly to the charitable organization of your choice). The name of the program is called "Tough Enough to Wear Pink," and the hottest guys have even embroidered this phrase (in pink) on the back yoke.

Now don't be a bunch of sissies: go out there and get in the pink!

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati.

[GMan]

Outside of Kilt wearing, I have had more compliments about wearing pink shirts.

It is just a color as Rex has said.

[Tattoo Bradley]

I have a couple of pink shirts. A non-issue.

[neo71665]

I've worn pink in the past, not a real issue except I hate it and the color red. If not for that fact I would wear that shirt .

[Southern Breeze]

It's a non-issue here as well. I have several pink shirts myself. Thanks for the link.

[pbpersson]

OH NOOOOOOOO! I could NEVER wear pink!!!!

Just had to be sure to throw my 2 cents worth in since so many had already said it was no issue.


Phil in Phoenix

[Yaish]

It is just a color, but its also an ugly color. You have to know what colors work for you, and pink, yellow, red, and even white do not work for me as far as tops go.

Blues, greens, browns, and blacks are great. I can even do purple (I have a fantastic shiny purple shirt) or maroon, but "bright" colors dont look good on me, regardless of connotation.

The breast cancer awareness and donations are a good thing, but I do want to bring up a point. The numbers for prostate cancer are almost identical, though it affects mainly men.

• Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in America.
• In 2006, over 232,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and over 30,000 men will die from it.
• Because prostate cancer is a relatively slow-growing cancer, the 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer diagnosed at all stages is 98%. The relative 10-year survival rate is 84% and the 15-year survival rate is 56%.

So where is the brown shirt donation link?

[Pour1Malt]

if ai lueked guid in pink ai'd wear it... but ai dinnae...

ai cannae wear red shirts either... baith colours mak ma skin luek green...

ai dae support helpin breast an prostate cancer though...

[JackK]

I think a big fear of Pink these days is that is was so over done in the prepie 1980's. Seems like everywhere one turned somebody was wearing a pink Izod golf shirt with something black. Then when the prepie thing died so pink.
Sort of the same as the 70's disco think.
IMHO it is still a wonderful color, sort of reminds me of the peppermints my dutch grandmother always had on hand.

Jack

[Jerry]

A slight hijack to your thread, REX:

Quote:

"This year in America, more than 211,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 43,300 die. One woman in eight either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In addition, 1,600 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 400 will die this year. If detected early, the five-year survival rate exceeds 95%."

Thank you for mentioning men here. I am a male breast cancer suvivor (8 years now). It is difficuly to to get anyone interested in the fact that men die from this disease too. I wrote an email to one of the national breast cancer awareness groups about the fact that their adds did not even mention that males die from breast cancer too, and they did not even have the courtesy to answer my email. And, I did mention that I am a male breast cancer suvivor.