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Pink was not always the color for girls, Blue was not always the color for boys

50s Pam — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:09:38 +0000

Real men DO have pink bathrooms. You see, a university professor, Jo Paoletti of the University of Maryland, actually has done extensive academic research studying how it is that the color pink today has come to be associated with girls and the color blue, with boys. Seems like the shift did not begin until the beginning of the 20th century and even then, it took until after World War II for this yet-another gender distinction to become entrenched. Before that, parents used a variety of colors for their children’s clothing and rooms. So, in the 1930s, when pink bathrooms started to appear, I am surmising that pink did NOT mean girlie or effeminate — it just meant “lovely.” The University of Utah Press will publish Jo Paoletti’s monograph, Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America, in 2010. Ad: Kohler, 1954.

Taylor agrees: Save The Pink Bathrooms

50s Pam — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:08:59 +0000

Taylor was among the two dozen or so RetroRenovation.com readers who attended my first-ever talk on Save The Pink Bathrooms, at the Southern Spring Home & Garden Show in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 5, 2010. It’s readers like this who make it all worth while.

1,000+ images in our flickr group

50s Pam — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:05:45 +0000

Evaxebra is a talented, spirited photographer who loves pink bathrooms to live with — and to photograph in. You see, there’s something special about the light as it bounces off all that pink tile. It makes you look really good — glowing. Unless you are immersed in a tub of faux blood, of course. We now have 900+ photos in our Save the Pink Bathrooms group. You can see them all here. Seems like amateur and professional photographers alike love to take photos in pink bathrooms. The tile. Toilets. Tubs. Vanities. Cats in pink bathrooms. Dogs, too. There’s plenty of mirror blogging. Nothing kinky allowed in this group, although I assure you I screen plenty of those out. Special thanks to Evaxebra for giving me permission to post this photo. You can see all her photographs on flickr here. Fellow bloggers/websites, please play nice and ask her permission if you’d like to feature this image as well. Thank you.

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50s Pam — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:29:09 +0000

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