In the pink
By Libby
Oh for the love of Pete. I thought we got rid of the fashion police in 1972. Barbara Ellen at the Guardian rails against the current fashion trend that has painted our world pink, reading some deep psychological meaning into a passing fad. She wails that it's infantilised half the population and longs for the days when empowered women eschewed the color.
Give me a break. There's no deep meaning to it. It's just a marketing ploy that caught on. Last year it was orange I think, and before that everyone was wearing aqua and I seem to recall when red and black were the hot colors. That women, and men, feel free to wear pink again is a sign that most of us have moved past meaningless symbolism. Actually, it's sign of women's empowerment that we feel free to wear the color without the stigma Ellen seeks to reattach to it.
For myself, I wear mostly black. Not to make any kind of statement. Simply because I'm terrible at putting together outfits and black is easy to accessorize. But I happen to look great in a couple of shades of pink and occassionally wear it myself without fear of being thought subservient or infantile. And by the way, I think a man wearing a pink oxford shirt looks really sexy.
But in the end, it's just another color Barbara. Get over it.
Oh for the love of Pete. I thought we got rid of the fashion police in 1972. Barbara Ellen at the Guardian rails against the current fashion trend that has painted our world pink, reading some deep psychological meaning into a passing fad. She wails that it's infantilised half the population and longs for the days when empowered women eschewed the color.
Give me a break. There's no deep meaning to it. It's just a marketing ploy that caught on. Last year it was orange I think, and before that everyone was wearing aqua and I seem to recall when red and black were the hot colors. That women, and men, feel free to wear pink again is a sign that most of us have moved past meaningless symbolism. Actually, it's sign of women's empowerment that we feel free to wear the color without the stigma Ellen seeks to reattach to it.
For myself, I wear mostly black. Not to make any kind of statement. Simply because I'm terrible at putting together outfits and black is easy to accessorize. But I happen to look great in a couple of shades of pink and occassionally wear it myself without fear of being thought subservient or infantile. And by the way, I think a man wearing a pink oxford shirt looks really sexy.
But in the end, it's just another color Barbara. Get over it.
posted by Libby Spencer at 8:36 AM
2 Comments:
Hey, I have a pink oxford shirt. But when I put it on my 6'8" 305 lb frame it doesn't look sexy, it looks PINK!
Sexy is in the eye of the beholder Jim. At the risk of offending your wife, I'd bet you look sexy as hell in it.
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