Dilemma of Colours?

I was quite eager to find out why association of the colour “pink” is with baby girl and “blue” with baby boy, in case Aditi asks me when she grows up “Mummy, why mostly I was dressed in pink?”

Infact, this hasn’t always been the case, blue was more often associated with girls and pink with boys as per the below stories..

In the west during the Middle Ages, the colour red was associated with the masculine because it represented strength, war, fire and blood. It was fairly common that if a man had coloured clothing, it was dyed red or pale red (i.e. "pink"). Pink was often used for male children, being a pale version of red.

The colour blue was associated with the feminine since the colour often represented peace, harmony, water, the sky (and thus, Heaven), and the Virgin Mary. Even today, the Virgin Mary is associated with blue. They next time you see an image of Mary, notice either the blue shawl or the blue background. Arabs in the Middle East continue to paint the doors of their homes blue in a tradition to frighten away demons.

Despite regional differences in dress and culture, but there is evidence that these colour conventions were adhered to through much of Western Europe and later on in the Americas. Apparently, pink sailor suits were common for boys in the early twentieth century.

While no one can say with certainty how people started associating the colours differently with the genders, changes started as early as the mid-1800s. " In the 19th and early 20th centuries, baby clothes often were all white. The identification of pink with femininity started to become widely accepted around the time of World War II.

So, is pink for girls and blue for boys? It doesn't seem so clear to me... and to break the norm I decided to dress my little model in blue colour. Looks like Aditi enjoyed the change, same like mummy and papa did as it bought tons of smile on my little model's face.

Love my blue angel.....