The color pink

[Dana Lane]

I LOVE the color pink but mostly wear it with something black. Black and Pink to me is the most awesome color combination in the Universe. 

[V M]

Hmmm, I was just realizing that I don't really have allot of pink stuff.

Other than panties, a camisole nightie, and my breast cancer awareness tee, I can't think of much.

Oh, I think I might have a sweater and some leggings 

[finewine]

I have a tailor made dark charcoal suit which I chose to have with a strong, vibrant pink silk lining (and waistcoat back) because it's a great contrast.  Looks fabulous!  Men can wear pink when it's done with some class.

[Arch]

Years ago, I read that pink walls were meant to soothe people, like mental patients. All it would do for me is make me pissed as hell...STOP TRYING TO SOOTHE ME!!!!!!!!!!

[V M]

The pink room would work for awhile, but then they had to be transfered to the blue room

[jamie lee]

I love Pink and Grays mixed together.

[Silver]

Don't care too much, but I don't wanna be smothered in it.

I'm a guy and I can't help but follow conditioning.

[Walter]

Sometimes when I'm feeling bold, I'll wear pink nail polish. It doesn't look right with the clothes I wear though

[Cindy]

I love Pink and Grays mixed together.

Totally with Jamie,

I have several pink tops that go great with grey skirts. OK with black but stand out with grey (TME).

I also love blue, again often with with grey and/or black. Oops my avatar.

Do you reckon we are stereotyped as children into colour selection?

I didn't think so. I thought it was just phases of life, experiment with colours we like no matter what gender we may be.

As Janet said pink and blue use to be traditional colours for girls and boys. Anyone know why?

Are there new colours nowadays?

For example most university kids are non-conformist (so they say) and dress the same.

Cindy

[LordKAT]

Detest pink, it causes people to need those funny white coats with the buckles in back.

[Arch]

The pink room would work for awhile, but then they had to be transfered to the blue room

Only if they were transguys...

[jamie lee]

Totally with Jamie,

I have several pink tops that go great with grey skirts. OK with black but stand out with grey (TME).

I also love blue, again often with with grey and/or black. Oops my avatar.

Do you reckon we are stereotyped as children into colour selection?

I didn't think so. I thought it was just phases of life, experiment with colours we like no matter what gender we may be.

As Janet said pink and blue use to be traditional colours for girls and boys. Anyone know why?

Are there new colours nowadays?

For example most university kids are non-conformist (so they say) and dress the same.

Cindy

I love blues and grays too, I have quite a few blue tops. I have so many pinks, blues and grays that when I wanted a new blue or gray hoodie my wife told me enough ! so she went out and bought me a new women tan and white one !

As far as stereotyping I think their is some truth in that, as my 11 year old grandson wouldn't let us buy him a new jacket because it had 2 small pink stripes mixed in with some blue ones stating "Pink is for girls only"

Jamie

[pretty pauline]

Perhaps overkill from years of being denied pink. 

There a lot of truth in that quote, I was 16years old when I started transition, first 16years of my life the color pink was alien, then when I started transition the color pink was introduced into my life and it was everywhere, it became my favorite color. My parents decorated my room in different shades of pink, I remember the walls painted in a pretty Barbie pink, the ceiling painted in a soft baby pink, when I opened my eyes every morning it was the first color Id see and the last color before I went to sleep. I remember my bedside locker and lamp where a beautiful barbie pink. My brother hated it, he thought it was over the top too sissy and girly, but I was very comfortable with pink, it made me feel feminine.
Nowadays my cellphone is pink, over half my clothes are pink, my computer laptop is a dell pink, at night my BF thinks I look like a princess in my pink nightie lol
Im not ashamed, I love pink.
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[Luna!]

It's a great color, it just has to be used properly. Conceivably, one could put together an all-pink room or an all-pink outfit, but you'd need half a dozen different shades to make it work nicely. And people will still dismiss it as gimmicky... (sigh)

I love the color. That being said, I still can't spend very long in the Barbie aisle at the Toys-R-Us.
All the hot pink starts to burn after a little while. Who doesn't think that though? ^_^

[pretty pauline]

Iv read all the replys in this thread, both funny and interesting, but its kinda split, and Arch your so so funny, I love your sense of humour, but what is it about GUYS AND PINK.
I remember an incident with my brother years ago with the color pink lol my family had visitors to stay, but I was away on vacation, my brother had not moved out yet, so the only room available for him to sleep in was my room, now my room was very very pink, every shade of pink, Barbie pink, soft baby pink, minky pink, peachy pink, right down to the curtains on the windows which where actually white but had a pink trim frill tied back in hooks to the wall with pink bows. Anyway my brother refused to sleep in my ''girly pink room'' as he called it so slept on a cold hard floor downstairs for nearly a week, my Mam and I had a good laugh about it for years, Im sure he got a sore back out of it, what a sacriffice to make, choose to suffer back pain than sleep in pink, we girls don't have a hang up on blues, but what is it about GUYS AND PINK.

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[r.morgan]

Anyway my brother refused to sleep in my ''girly pink room'' as he called it so slept on a cold hard floor downstairs for nearly a week, my Mam and I had a good laugh about it for years, Im sure he got a sore back out of it, what a sacriffice to make, choose to suffer back pain than sleep in pink, we girls don't have a hang up on blues, but what is it about GUYS AND PINK.

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Wow that's some serious hatred just for a small band of the visible light color spectrum. 
I don't get the anti-pink thing.   But as I said I love the "girly" colors anyway. 

A while ago I asked a friend why he was against pink.  He said it's a girls color.  I pointed out that his Vikings Jacket was purple and that's a "girls color" too.  He just shrugged and said "But it's not pink." 

Yeah, huge help that conversation was huh?

[Jamie-o]

When I was a little kid (5 and under) pink was my favorite color.  Then I started to school and began to understand the social associations of the color pink and quickly learned to loathe it.  The only thing I now own in the color pink is a grey tie with pink elephants on it.

[V M]

I think I saw those elephants chasing your cat the other night 

[Cindy]

I wonder if it's the same elephant that finewine has?

Cindy

[Kurzar]

   No..just...NO.  I refuse to have anything to do with the color pink. Heh my cismale fiancee loves pink...x.x