A Survey Of This Household

It's unanimous... the whole house agrees that pink sucks. In hind sight, I am embarrassed that I ever forced my kids to wear it when they were little.  But to be honest, I really feel that little girls don't have much choice. Pink is everywhere in the little girls clothing section of pretty much any store. Then a few years ago, I actually purchased some hot pink alpaca rovings. OMG that was hard on the eyes! But I persevered and finished spinning it in record time. (Probably because I hated the colour so much.) Yesterday I was going through my basket of hand spun yarn and came across that hot pink alpaca still balled up and ready for use and it was then that I decided that I would never have anything to do with pink again. Five years is a long time to leave perfectly good alpaca yarn alone with no project in mind. What I had in my mind when I brought that stuff home is beyond me. Then in another basket I found a partial baby surprise sweater in a soft bubble gum pink fibre that I have never had the ability to finish. I raveled it out, skeined it up and washed it and it will go in my "for sale" pile. After that my pink-hate reigned supreme all day. Last night, I was going through all the possible backgrounds for the Ye Olde Batt facelift, and I just about puked each time I landed on anything resembling pink.  I don't know when my hate relationship with pink began... it just seems like I've hated pink forever.

I realize that this is abnormal and that there are a lot of people who can wear pink and carry it off with aplomb. I sometimes see women wearing pink and think, gee, that looks super on her. But when I wear it I want to go racing to the bathroom where I can enjoy a view of the inside of a toilet. I have passed on the hate relationship I have with pink to my children. When they see pink they go, "Oh yuck!" which recently happened when we watched Miley Cyrus's new movie called The Last Song.  In the movie she picked out some cross breed lilac/pink confection style dress for a wedding she was going to attend.... the girls groaned in agony when she picked out that dress.... and I have to say that it's probably all my fault. But in all honesty, the dress really didn't do anything for her..... I think it would have been hard pressed to do anything for anyone. My reaction was, Oh God who picked that stupid thing out! (Otherwise the movie was not too bad for a coming of age movie.)

I don't have a problem with women being feminine or anything but they can do that so well without getting sucked in to the pink confection movement. I think plaid gum boots prove your feminine side quite nicely. (I can't see a man ever wearing plaid gumboots!) I also think that a soft butter yellow will do very nicely for those moments when you feel you want to look like a soft sweetheart. Even Ice Blue looks awesome on a woman who needs a moment to draw the attention of a/her man. Here are a few pictures of the Together brand of clothing sold by Sears..... All of the articles of clothing are very feminine and there's not a bit of pink anywhere to be seen.

Mind you, most of this clothing has lace or embroidery and lace is just plain awesome..... very feminine.

I think what it is that makes me dislike pink is the fact that it is so over used. I actually can handle pink if a man is wearing a nice pale pink shirt..... and I don't think it is gay. I think that pink on a man means that he's very comfortable in his skin, be he gay or otherwise. I also have a skirt that I made a few years ago that is brown with gold and pink in the pattern and it is really pretty... mind you I never team it with a pink top... (I don't think I own any all pink clothing)... But the point is that the feminine side of pink is not part of this fabric.

This is the material for my skirt....and the only pink you'll find in my closet.

As a matter of a fact, in view of men wearing pink more often, I don't think that pink is the be-all-end-all of femininity anyway.Whenever women want to look pretty and innocent they choose pink. But the only innocent thing that can carry off pink are flowers and sunsets. And that in my opinion, is where pink should stay.

After all this, I am heading off to get out of my yellow nightgown, to shower, and put on something that absolutely does not look even remotely like pink.