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| Thread ID: 95904 | 2008-12-21 00:23:00 | A Poll for ladies only - regarding colours | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 731285 | 2008-12-21 19:11:00 | Salmon OK ~ Pastel Pink as part of a pattern OK Plain pink No. | Sue (33) | ||
| 731286 | 2008-12-21 19:52:00 | I have no real trouble with the color/colour . About "pink" for female babies - a metonym: In the land of Druids and witches, where more specters and haunts exist per-capita than any place else in the world, male babies were clothed in pink and their hair was grown into long locks, wearing frocks ( . vintagepostcards . org/auctions/elwood-indiana-cabinet-card-photo-smiling-baby . jpg" target="_blank">www . vintagepostcards . org), petticoats, crinolines and dresses ( . sallyqueenassociates . com/fauntleroy . jpg" target="_blank">www . sallyqueenassociates . com) from fear that the beasties and ghoulies would attack a male child - who was considered a prime target for things that went "bump" in the night . Confusion of/to the spirit world was primarily done by dressing a male child as female because what good spectre would bother with one of THEM anyway? They were after the males and so the males were protected by color and clothing style . The old Gaelic term: "gurl" <see footnote A> or "gurlish" applied to a boy-child, and that was then allowed to be dropped after the C-of-E's "confirmation" into the faith, where it was assumed the male child could now protect himself with a spiritual shield, as it were . <See footnote B> Some of the older-ones here may even remember the frocks and long, ringlet'd hair of male babies and even continuing the dresses and petticoats that they wore until a certain age . After that age, young boys wore the Little Lord Fauntleroy ( . genealogy . rootsweb . ancestry . com/~tlosborne/Burnett/Burnetthistory/Francishodgsonburnett/littlelordfauntleroysuit4 . jpg" target="_blank">freepages . genealogy . rootsweb . ancestry . com)-look that was all the rage, with velvet coat and short pants, ruffled blouses, patent leather shoes and long hair in curls . (PS: We call those short pants on a boy "breeches" or "knickers", but I know that knickers is a totally different concept in UK-ish places . ) I found this tidbit of information on a visit I made, many years ago to the Smithsonian Institute Museum in Washington DC . , The dichotomous articles on/of clothing and preferred colors (pink= girl? or boy?; blue= boy? or girl?) I found was done under the guise of spiritism, if not downright paganism and supplication to evil spirits and rituals . Footnote(s): A . GURL: Gurl\, n . A young person of either sex . [Obs . ] See Girl . --Chaucer . B . Etymology: The word girl first appeared during the Middle Ages between 1250 and 1300 CE and came from the Anglo-Saxon words gerle (also spelled girle or gurle), likely cognate with the Old Low German word gör (sometimes given as kerl) . The Anglo-Saxon word gerela meaning dress or clothing item also seems to have been used as a metonym <See: Definition> in some sense . DEFINITION of METONYM: metonym - /noun/ a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington" is a metonym for the "United States government"; "plastic" is a metonym for "credit card" also: (in this case) "gurl" is meant as "male infant or baby below <or: unconsecrated> age of accountability and somewhat as infant children in general with no sexual differentiation" . ref: The Language of the Chaucer Tradition . • Simon Horobin . Cambridge: D . S . Brewer, 2003 . x + 179 pp . ISBN 0-85991-780-0 . Def of "BREECHES" When a little boy was too old to wear a dress or a skirt (about 5 years old), he was "breeched", breeches (or <American> "knickers") were baggy knee length shorts worn with long stockings . Both boys wear long lace up or button up boots, slightly later on in the mid 1880's, short ankle length shoes would become popular and more comfortable for children . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 731287 | 2008-12-21 20:39:00 | I like pink flowers and some items of clothing, depending on the shade of pink . Mostly I wear browns, greens, and blues . As for houses and cars, nup . Guys who wear pink shirts are brave . LL :blush: The pink blush is for Pctek lol! |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 731288 | 2008-12-21 20:46:00 | Brave? Or just Que*r? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 731289 | 2008-12-21 20:59:00 | I don't mind mushroom and pastel pinks in general, but mid-hot pink is out. I don't hate it, just don't like it. Large objects such as cars and houses painted pink would be plain eugh. I would never wear pink clothing as it doesn't suit my colouring. I wouldn't buy something pink if I had a choice. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 731290 | 2008-12-21 20:59:00 | Pink is the new black. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 731291 | 2008-12-21 21:01:00 | Guys who wear pink shirts are brave. Brave? Or just Que*r?Some guys I've seen wearing pink (pale pink) look really good. I certainly don't think they are queer; just confident enough in their own sexuality to wear that colour without caring what people may generalise about them. |
Jen (38) | ||
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