Pink is for girls and blue is for boys.
This is something we all heard growing up.
The two colors were first chosen because of how they complimented hair and eye colors. Blue was meant to go with blue eyes/ blonde hair, and pink for brown eyes/ brown hair.
Blue was actually the color that was assigned to girls, because it was seen as a dainty color.
Pink was seen as a stronger color, so it was assigned to boys.
But how then did pink become a color for girls and blue for boys?
In 1960’s when women started stepping outside, they started putting on pink clothes, which reflected as breaking stereotypes. Clothing colors became, once again, gender-neutral.
The 1980s = capitalism = baby clothes marketing
There was sort of pride in identifying a baby daughter with pink headbands and pink diapers.
If being feminine was a bad thing in the 1960s, it was a good thing by the 1980s.