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In Pictures: the Museum at FIT to stage “Pink: the History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color”

Pink is usually associated with baby girls, ballerinas, Barbies, and all things feminine. But it hasn’t always been this way: the stereotype of pink as a gender signifier only originated in the late 1800s in the United States. Until then, most babies wore white, a color which is easier to wash and to bleach. What may sound surprising to some is...

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