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Jan Murphy@packrat74.bsky.social |
Jo Paoletti's book explores the change from pink being "too strong a color" for girls in the early 20th Century to the endless pinkification we have now.
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MB Brown
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That reminds me that the color pink is named for the common name for Dianthus (flowers include carnations, Sweet William, among others), pinks, because of the petals’ frayed edges. They were “pinked” - think of the cut of pinking shears.
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