My 10-month-old baby daughter primarily wears clothes that are hand-me-downs, thrift shop finds or gifts, so I hadn’t thought too much about what her clothes say about her — or our society — until ...

If you are a girl and under the age of 12, you had better like the color pink. Modern fashion for young people of the female variety offers more pink than a cotton candy factory, a fact that's made ...

Pink wasn’t considered the color for girls until the 1940s. That probably comes as a surprise to anyone who’s walked into the girls’ section of a clothing store lately, but it didn’t use to be that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pink for girls. Truck motifs for boys. A growing number of parents want to get outside those parameters when it comes to dressing their kids. Kristin Higgins was adamant about not ...

The Idea: Pink for a boy. The Motive: To distinguish him from a girl. The Story: In Belgium, Princess Astrid, consort of the Crown Prince, gave birth a fortnight ago to a 7-lb. daughter. Said ...

Before World War II, there was nothing especially girly about the color pink. In fact, the opposite was true: When pastel colors suddenly became popular for babies in the early 20th century, a ...

At age 3, Maya Choksi declared that she’d no longer be wearing dresses. She avoided the colors pink and purple, and bows, sparkles, and ribbons. She asked her mom, Sharon Choksi, why the boys got all ...

Pink is for boys and blue is for girls. That was the rule for dressing infants back in 1893, as one woman explained it that year to The New York Times. “Of course,” she said. “Why, if everyone chose a ...