A Brief History: How Pink Became Fashion’s Color Of Controversy
From the blush pink of royal mistresses to the hot pink of tabloid party girls, pink has gained a reputation for being a provocative color for those who dare to wear it.
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Despite its various shades and the complexities of its cultural significance, it is a color that is often branded with the same connotations of feminine frivolity and excess – whether girlish and innocent or womanly and erotic.
So much so that worshipers at a North London church were ordered to remove pink chairs after an ecclesiastical judge claimed that the choice of color scheme could “cause puzzlement”.
This pink panic invites the question: why is pink so controversial?
A brief glimpse at its rather colorful history in the Western ...
