This article is about the color pink. Pink also has a number of other meanings. See Pink (disambiguation).
Pink is a color made by mixing red and white and sometimes described as being a light red, but it is more accurately a bright undersaturated red. There are many different shades of this color. "Pink" was not a color word known to Shakespeare: it was invented in the 17th century to described the light red in pinks, hardy carnations of the genus Dianthus, named from the "pinked" edges of their petals, appearing to have been cut with pinking shears.
1 Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions
- The color of pink is now associated with womanhood, just like blue is associated with boys and manhood, although The Ladies Home Journal said the reverse was the "generally accepted rule" in an edition of 1918, describing pink as "more decided and stronger" whilst blue was "more delicate and dainty". Carrie, from Sex and the City, for example, is seen wearing pink dresses very often in the television series, and Elle, from the Legally Blonde movie series, prefers pink over any other color.
- Many feminists on the other hand have decried the color pink, along with dresses and skirts, as something related to the pre-feminism "old-style female", which they detest as a symbol of the oppression and limitations of that era, although many other girls and women have sought to reclaim some aspects of the old-style female, including pink, as something to be proud of.
- Pink is also associated with homosexuals, often in the form of a pink triangle . This symbolicA symbol or (in many senses) token is a representation of something — an idea, object, concept, quality, etc. Nature of symbols A symbol can be a material object whose shape or origin is related, by nature or convention, to the thing it represents: for in usage stems from the symbols used by the Nazis to label their prisonerThis article refers to an imprisoned person. For the television programs, see Prisoner (TV series and The Prisoner . A prisoner is a person incarcerated in a prison or similar facility, typically for violating laws. Soldiers in wartime may also be held ass in the concentration campA concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the internes [1]. Where JewThe word Jew is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to either a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity. This article discusses the term as describing an ethnic group; for as were forced to wear the familiar yellowYellow is the color of light whose wavelength is between 565nm and 590nm, or is a mixture of red and green light that appears to be the same color. Yellow is one of the subtractive primary colours ( primary pigments), and its complementary color is blue. stars of DavidThe Star of David Magen David or Mogen David in Hebrew, Shield of David Solomon's Seal or Seal of Solomon is a generally recognized symbol of Judaism and Jewish identity. It is also known as the Jewish Star . With the establishment of the State of Israel, convicted homosexual men were forced to wear a pink triangle. Nowadays, it is often worn with pride. A DutchDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium newsgroup about homosexuality is called nl.roze,
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Hot pink is bold and intense or, as Elsa Schiaparelli, the first to use hot pink called it, "shocking pink".
