‘The question ticket over pink is no longer approximately whether genuine men can wear it; it’s approximately whether genuine women can’The question ticket over pink is no longer approximately whether genuine men can wear it; it’s approximately whether genuine women can. Being relaxed approximately gender norms is terrifically 2015,after all. A man in pink is smart and contemporary, as is a woman in a navy double-breasted jacket. Pink-for-little-girls is at best a cliche, or at worst a societal evil to be campaigned against. Pink for big girls,meanwhile, suggests you are either immature (as in, and a bit old to dress like Barbie) or out-of-date (as in,a bit young to dress like the Queen Mother).
Fashion has dodged this question by whitewashing pink to a rosy neutral and rebranding it “blush”. Blush has become the acceptable face of pink, a pink to save your blushes. If quick-witted pink is the commercialised, or commodified colour of femininity – believe of Marilyn Monroe singing Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend in her high-shine fuchsia frock – then a dusty,plaster-of-Paris off-pink is the acceptable arthouse alternative.
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Source: theguardian.com