My girlfriend and best friend went to the other high school in our town. For that school’s junior prom in 1980 my best friend and I both wore white tuxes with top hats, capes, and canes. My girlfriend was wearing a pink dress so I wore a pink ruffled shirt.
@SSteve not to be that guy (so of course that means I will) but how does referring to a specific event answer the question of the frequency you/your girlfriend/best friend wore pink in general? Is the junior prom understood to be a fairly regular (like once or twice a week) event?
I had a dress shirt that had a multitude of colors in stripes of various width,one very narrow one being pink. It was literally torn off of me a few years back, and I don’t think I’ve worn pink since. Magenta, however…
The color thing referring to genders is weird. I don’t like how certain colors are “allowed” for certain genders.
I hate “baby pink”. I think it’s a terrible color. If I ever had a daughter, I think people would be confused as to what gender she was unless I put a bow on her head.
I once bought my ex a royal purple dress shirt for work. He wasn’t sure about the color. It looked fantastic on him, and a lot of people agreed. Then a few people thought he was gay because he wore purple. So he quit wearing it because God forbid someone mistake you for being gay. I never dared to buy him a pink one.
The guy I’m currently dating, one of the first photos he sent me was him trying on a purple jacket. I remember smiling a lot at that.
@AdmiralDave I had an almost-rainbow striped sweater many years ago, except it also had salmon and brown stripes. The ugliest rainbow. I loved that thing.
I haven’t liked pink most of my life, even as a kid, because it was too girly. (I LOVED purple, though.) As a young breast cancer survivor, I like pink even less, because that gets shoved down my throat every October. Enough!!
I do really like raspberry-ish colors for clothes, and lighter shades are basically pink, so I guess that’s fine. Hot pink is still gross, though.
In a college class where they talked about conventions that had a probably unknown/not truly understood at the time it started benefit, one example the teacher used was girl-pink/ boy-blue. The prof said the not-understood-well benefit was baby girls were frail and pink “envigorated them” but baby boys were overactive and baby blue had a calming effect. Psychologically what was better understood later was pink does cause more active behavior and blue more calm.
Which I now wonder about the drunk tank pink mentioned by @jasontoon and if the whole color thing is just finding a theory to fit the convention and “explain” why it’s okay and not just an old wives tail or something.
@PocketBrain yup, thought that was an interesting not from @jasontoon too. Kind of reinforces my feeling that my college prof’s theory was just that: theory that he took facts post-occurance to justify.
Can’t remember the last time. Years, I presume. Nothing pro or against it. Prefer dark colors or neutrals in clothing. (Except for track shoes - they can be whatever)
Um, we wear pink on Wednesdays. Why wasn’t this an option on the poll?
Also:
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/stabby-the-unicorn-pink
Why are people, or at minimum women, wearing pink on Wednesdays? I can understand in October but why else?
@elimanningface https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/30/mean-girls-wednesdays-we-wear-pink
@SSteve thank you!
I tend not to wear many light colors because the inevitable stains resulting from my clumsiness are harder to get out.
@nogoodwithnames That is the exact reason why I never wear white.
My girlfriend and best friend went to the other high school in our town. For that school’s junior prom in 1980 my best friend and I both wore white tuxes with top hats, capes, and canes. My girlfriend was wearing a pink dress so I wore a pink ruffled shirt.
@SSteve wow. Pics?
@SSteve not to be that guy (so of course that means I will) but how does referring to a specific event answer the question of the frequency you/your girlfriend/best friend wore pink in general? Is the junior prom understood to be a fairly regular (like once or twice a week) event?
@RiotDemon Probably buried in a box somewhere. I looked in one likely place but it wasn’t there. If it turns up, I’ll post it.
@elimanningface
/giphy don’t be that guy
I love pink. (Move over, Barney!)
But shell pink, not hot pink.
We used to have annual Pink Parties where everyone had to wear some pink and the food was pink, and we played Pink Floyd, etc.
@KDemo Amen. I love Barney, and I love purple. But I love pink more.
Though I don’t discriminate against hot
I had a dress shirt that had a multitude of colors in stripes of various width,one very narrow one being pink. It was literally torn off of me a few years back, and I don’t think I’ve worn pink since. Magenta, however…
@simplersimon it was that hideous that someone had to rip it off you?
My daughter’s favorite color is dark blue so she’s either ahead of the times or way behind.
The color thing referring to genders is weird. I don’t like how certain colors are “allowed” for certain genders.
I hate “baby pink”. I think it’s a terrible color. If I ever had a daughter, I think people would be confused as to what gender she was unless I put a bow on her head.
I once bought my ex a royal purple dress shirt for work. He wasn’t sure about the color. It looked fantastic on him, and a lot of people agreed. Then a few people thought he was gay because he wore purple. So he quit wearing it because God forbid someone mistake you for being gay. I never dared to buy him a pink one.
The guy I’m currently dating, one of the first photos he sent me was him trying on a purple jacket. I remember smiling a lot at that.
We need more purple. Screw pink.
Right now I don’t think I even have anything pink…if I did, I would wear it fairly often - just not if it’s for breast cancer awareness.
IT’S NOT PINK GUYS IT’S SALMON OK STOP TRYING TO MAKE MY CRY! <sob>
@AdmiralDave I had an almost-rainbow striped sweater many years ago, except it also had salmon and brown stripes. The ugliest rainbow. I loved that thing.
I haven’t liked pink most of my life, even as a kid, because it was too girly. (I LOVED purple, though.) As a young breast cancer survivor, I like pink even less, because that gets shoved down my throat every October. Enough!!
I do really like raspberry-ish colors for clothes, and lighter shades are basically pink, so I guess that’s fine. Hot pink is still gross, though.
In a college class where they talked about conventions that had a probably unknown/not truly understood at the time it started benefit, one example the teacher used was girl-pink/ boy-blue. The prof said the not-understood-well benefit was baby girls were frail and pink “envigorated them” but baby boys were overactive and baby blue had a calming effect. Psychologically what was better understood later was pink does cause more active behavior and blue more calm.
Which I now wonder about the drunk tank pink mentioned by @jasontoon and if the whole color thing is just finding a theory to fit the convention and “explain” why it’s okay and not just an old wives tail or something.
@mollama Used to be, baby boys wore pink and girls wore blue. It switched around in the forties.
@mollama https://www.google.com/amp/attn-google-amp.herokuapp.com/stories/2316/pink-prison-cells?client=ms-android-att-us
How pink became a prison color.
@PocketBrain yup, thought that was an interesting not from @jasontoon too. Kind of reinforces my feeling that my college prof’s theory was just that: theory that he took facts post-occurance to justify.
I just don’t look good in pink, I assume.
Pink, meh.
My skin tone is completely wrong for wearing pink.
Can’t remember the last time. Years, I presume. Nothing pro or against it. Prefer dark colors or neutrals in clothing. (Except for track shoes - they can be whatever)
I prefer purple and I don’t actually like pink that much, but I’ve gotten a decent amount of pink clothes as gifts. So I do wear those.
@ninjaemilee same: I prefer dark blues and greens but get pink clothing gifts. I think I have only bought 3 pink items in 45+ years.
Should probably go in the bad jokes thread:
“Excuse me, Ma’am. You look like Helen Greene!”
“You should see me in pink.”
tragic lack of pink military-surplus items.
@lifftchi
Because you never know when you might have to fight a war in the middle of flamingos.
No pink for me.
I’m wearing it right now.
When HR tells me it’s Susan Komen week.