Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
"When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue?" To uncover the answer, dress historian Jo Paoletti looked at advertising, catalogs, dolls, baby books, mommy blogs and discussion forums, and other popular media to examine the surprising shifts in attitudes toward color as a mark of...
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"When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue?" To uncover the answer, dress historian Jo Paoletti looked at advertising, catalogs, dolls, baby books, mommy blogs and discussion forums, and other popular media to examine the surprising shifts in attitudes toward color as a mark of gender in American children's clothing. She chronicles the decline of the white dress for both boys and girls, the introduction of rompers in the early 20th century, the gendering of pink and blue, the resurgence of unisex fashions, and the origins of today's highly gender-specific baby and toddler clothing.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780253001177 (025300117X)
ASIN: 025300117X
Publish date: January 22nd 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Hello, my name is Deborah and I read way too many books at once. But a lot of them are things I'm reading with my sonny (a little every night) or only in the bathroom or right before bed; or else they're the kind of thing it's hard to make a dent in (hello, Leviathan -- I'm halfway through you, pal!...
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