Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
Pink is very fashionable at the moment - and it used to be a masculine colour - hunting pink - being 'in the pink' - and any very old pink dress was most likely to be for a boy.
The start of the female gendering of pink (and exclusion from the male wardrobe) in America and parts of Europe is no earlier than the 1940s or 1950s. Its, however, accepted as a predominantly male colour in many countries including parts of the Commonwealth. Pink, for example, has long been a very popular colour in Bermuda for shorts (which, not unlike the kilt, are worn with sports coat and knee socks). It is considered a formal and not leisure colour (a range of prints). Bermuda shorts are business and formal attire. They are, like the kilt, a national dress. Bermuda shorts too are considered exclusively male garments. Both evolved from British military uniforms (many of our notions and styles for kilts can be traced to the army). The female counterpart (not considered proper business dress for women) are longer (knee length) and narrow-cut.