jss78, on 24 January 2016 - 02:31 PM, said:
I read this interesting article on the cultural history of colour recently. Apparently even in the west, pink was considered a decidedly manly colour, as recently as the early 20th century.
In clothing, pink was considered far too strong and flashy for the appropriately demure woman to wear.

interesting, so it's a post WWII, jingoistic, McCarthyism era prejudice........
I mean, I avoid it because it doesn't go well with red hair (wish more women would figure this out) but I have a friend of persian descent, who often wears pink shirts with a dove grey suit...and the ladies swoon.