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  2. Gendered associations of pink and blue - Wikipedia

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    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." [4]

  3. List of historical sources for pink and blue as gender ...

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    After the layette has been provided, comes the fitting out of the basket. Usually, the first baby's basket is lined with pink or bluepink, if a girl is desired, blue for a boy—and is covered with dotted muslin, and decked with flounces, laces, and ribbons. [55] 1908: USA: A Dictionary of Men's Wear ...

  4. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    There is an urban legend that pink was a masculine color before the mid 20th century, [citation needed] based on evidence of conflicting traditions before about 1940. Del Giudice (2012) argues that pink-blue gender coding has been broadly consistent in the UK and the US since it appeared around 1890. [25]

  5. Why can't little boys wear pink? The double standard in baby ...

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    "Some popular magazines in the 1910s and 1920s insisted that blue was a more delicate and dainty color, suitable for girls, while pink — with its affinity to red, the ultimate power color ...

  6. Deep red, burnt orange and golden yellow: Why fall colors ...

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    Why we love autumn colors. Maria Killam, founder of Killam Colour Academy, tells Yahoo Life that “the trees put on a lavish display of yellow greens, golds, oranges and rusty reds,” which is ...

  7. Why Are School Buses Yellow?

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    There used to be no rules for school transportation. Kids went to school in horse-drawn wagons and some districts had red white and blue buses, to instill patriotism. In 1939 he put together a ...

  8. I Can Sing a Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    The song has been used to teach children names of colours. [1] [2] Despite the name of the song, two of the seven colours mentioned ("red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue") – pink and purple – are not actually a colour of the rainbow (i.e. they are not spectral colors; pink is a variation of shade, and purple is the human brain's interpretation of mixed red/blue ...

  9. Why you shouldn't eat your boogers - AOL

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    But it turns out snacking on snot is a bad idea. Boogers trap invading viruses and bacteria before they can enter your body, so eating boogers might expose your system to these pathogens. See more ...