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Looking around the web and was wondering what you thought of this picture:
Kind of amazing. Born 100 years too late perhaps.
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FDR
Most importantly, this is a picture of FDR from the week before he discovered that stupid cigarette holder.
You Are Being Manipulated
Did I read somewhere that pink used to be a boy's colour around that time?
In 19th century England, pink ribbons or decorations were often worn by young boys; boys were simply considered small men, and while men in England wore red uniforms, boys wore pink. In fact the clothing for children in the 19th century was almost always white, since, before the invention of chemical dyes, clothing of any colour would quickly fade when washed in boiling water. Queen Victoria was painted in 1850 with her seventh child and third son, Prince Arthur, who wore white and pink.
Ladies' Home Journal article in June 1918 said, "The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger colour, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl." Other sources said blue was flattering for blonds, pink for brunettes; or blue was for blue-eyed babies, pink for brown-eyed babies...
In 1927, Time magazine printed a chart showing sex-appropriate colours for girls and boys according to leading U.S. stores. In Boston, Filene's told parents to dress boys in pink. So did Best & Co. in New York City, Halle's in Cleveland and Marshall Field in Chicago.
So how did we get from there to 'blue for boys, pink for girls'?
The real question is, how could we be fooled that easily?
It actually happened relatively recently.
In 1953's Peter Pan, Michael was in pink pyjamas the whole way through. (See link below). I understand this was actually one of the last uses of the old colouring scheme, with the transition starting near the end of World War 2.
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Darling
Is that you Daddy?
I remember seeing a photo of my father like that, with blonde ringlets. Until seeing that I assumed he'd always been bald!
Rhona McCloud
Now I want to go as FDR for
Now I want to go as FDR for Halloween.
The boys in dresses was most
The boys in dresses was most common in the upper classes. Sir Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, has a photo in one (and probably more) of the Scout offices showing him in a dress and curls. I think he was 8? 9?
The reason is probably pretty simple. Pinned diapers are easier to change without trousers in the way, but covering the body was pretty urgent (especially in England/Europe. It's cold there.). So, you used dresses until they were old enough to dress themselves and no longer needed diapers. It was sort of a graduation for boys to go to 'short pants'. (shorts)
Petticoat discipline came out of the idea that if you weren't behaving well enough, that meant you weren't allowed to dress yourself - therefore, you had to wear the dresses that younger _boys_ had to wear. NOT pretending that the boys were being treated like girls. (It's like having to wear a dunce cap)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.