Pink a colour for him?
Colours are symbols. That’s a fact – I was talking about earlier. Still there are so many different colours and each has so many different meanings that it is a never-ending story. So today I am going to talk about pink. Pink is a symbol of masculinity, that sounds wrong and still the symbolic meaning of pink is a surprise.
Pink is seen today as a symbol of femininity. Underwear and lingerie for women are often pink but pink underwear for men is unthinkable. Why? Well, first of all, pink is connected with romance, softness, sensibility, reluctance, affection and the need of protection. Who wears pink clothes or underwear is considered endearing, sweet, optimistic, unrealistic and misty-eyed.
But is that a realistic picture? Everybody who once went to Italy, the South of France or Spain knows that many men there wear pink shirts.
How does it come that particularly in those countries where men are seen as very virile and macho the colour pink is worn by so many men? Pink is a light colour mixed out of lot’s of white and a bluish red. Red is equivalent with passion, blood, sexuality and contest. These associations are a hundred percent virile. Blue in contrast used to be in the Christian tradition the colour of Maria and so it is the colour of women.
Pink and light blue are so called small colours in contrast to their stronger equivalents. Pink is the small red and so it is the colour for small men or boys. Till world war I pink used to be in Europe the colour for boys and men. After the first word war that changed and the sailor’s suite became fashion.
Blue turned to a symbol for working environment and manhood. Examples are the blue sailor’s suite, blue overall and blue work clothing. The meaning of pink changed to be from now on a colour for women. Many people don’t know about this development. That’s why they say pink is the colour of femininity.
Statistics say that adult women voted pink as their fourth favourite colour and the seventh disliked colour. Out of ten men every eighth calls pink a favourite colour and every third says that he dislikes pink. But all agree that pink underwear favours femininity. Many women love wearing pink underwear. It proofs them female, sensitive, endearing, romantic and cute.
Use the symbolic meaning of colours to choose your underwear and lingerie.
