Many years in the past, male babies were not assigned the color blue and female babies the color pink. Their parents were instead more concerned about other issues such as starvation, cholera, war, and roving packs of timber wolves. However, about a century ago, department stores and other purveyors of baby clothes promulgated the notion that male babies should wear pink (a diluted form of red, which is of course associated with manly activities involving blood such as hunting animals and armed conflict) and that girls should wear blue. However, the tide gradually turned, and in 1927, Time magazine published a chart showing which major clothing vendors favored which color for each sex. It was not until about 1940 that the current pink-for-girls and blue-for-boys policy emerged as the clear winner.
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