I ♡ PINK

Facts About the Color Pink

Here are a few facts about pink:

• Madame de Pompadour, one of Louis XV’s lovers, liked the hue so much that the Sèvres porcelain company created and named a specific pink shade for her.


• Former first lady Mamie Eisenhower loved the colour pink and had pink decor throughout the White House.


• Elvis Presley had a pink 1955 Cadillac.

History of the Color Pink

The color pink was recognized as a concept in 800 B.C. in Homer’s Odyssey.
The term was coined in the 17th century by a Greek botanist for the ruffled edges of carnations.
In the mid-18th century, pink was a fashionable colour among male and female aristocrats as a symbol of class and luxury.

In the mid-20th century, men started to wear darker colours to reflect their World War II service.
Bright and pastel colours like pink were rebranded as feminine as part of a postwar effort to remove women from the workforce and reestablish their traditional homemaker roles.
Many advertisements targeting women depicted them in colourful clothing.

This connotation extended to baby girls in the 1980s when ultrasound technology was first used to determine sex and parents could shop by gender.
Since the 1990s, pink has become more a bit more gender-neutral in Western culture.

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