Is there truth to the idea that men prefer blue and women like pink? Claudia Hammond investigates, and discovers why these colours matter more than we think. It’s easy to spot the girls ...

Pink is for girls. Blue is for boys. Of course our society allows exceptions now and again, but imagine showing up to a boy’s baby shower with a pink bib and matching pink shoes. There would be ...

Paoletti, the author of Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys From the Girls in America, told Smithsonian magazine in 2011. “What was once a matter of practicality—you dress your baby in white ...

Replacing traditional baby blue and pink are chocolate brown, magenta, orange and green. The well-dressed baby today is wearing an Asian-inspired print (the big trend among the infant set ...

jointly decided to paint the entire background of the tympanum with a colour believed to resemble the original. “It is a baby blue verging on grey,” Pasquale Francesco Mariani Orlandi ...

a trade magazine for baby clothes manufacturers, said: "There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl.

Cultural norms may also shape colour preferences. In cultures where pink is considered the appropriate colour for a baby girl and blue for a baby boy, babies become accustomed from birth to ...