They’re masquerades. Not unlike Blue Boy, Pinkie and Killigrew Kirke, whose identity as flesh-and-blood humans is swathed within extravagant costumes, accompanied by ostentatious props and ...

Blue in parts of Europe ... comments advising mothers that if you want your boy to grow up masculine, dress him in a masculine colour like pink and if you want your girl to grow up feminine ...

Steele believes that the acquisition of two 18th-century paintings by American millionaire Henry Huntington started turning the tide in favor of pink being a girls’ color. “The Blue Boy ...

Because the pink-for-a-girl, blue-for-a-boy social norms only set in during the 20th century in the United States, they cannot possibly stem from any evolved differences between boys' and girls ...

As we reflect on how we got to this place in history where a baby can be born without a gender, the question naturally arises: Why is it blue-for-boy and pink-for-girl anyway? In fact, it was not ...

In a vast property that boasts a vast collection of world-renowned artworks, "The Blue Boy" stands tall, along with "Pinkie," the powerful and ethereal Thomas Lawrence painting that "The Blue Boy ...

In June 1918, for example, a trade publication called the Infant’s Department reported, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink ...