Posted on 07/30/2004 7:43:22 AM PDT by dennisw
Think pink.
If you're picturing ballerina shoes or a flouncy sundress - pretty, girlie, feminine things - then you're way behind the times.
These days, pink is popping up in the most unlikely places. Over hairy chests. Covering bulging biceps. Atop a buzz cut.
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"I think it actually shows confidence in your masculinity," said The Apprentice's Kwame Jackson, who more than once this winter was shown across the boardroom table from The Donald wearing a natty pink shirt. "It shows you have like a subtle flair."
Jackson likes the look so much, he's including at least two pink or pink-accented shirts in a line of men's clothing he hopes to launch this fall - a sign that the color isn't just for summer apparel.
In fact, experts say, pink is only going to get hotter - figuratively and literally.
This is the summer of the masculine pink. Rappers, politicians, business types, inner-city boys on the city bus - all dressed in bubble gum, cotton candy, sunset pinks. For them, and other confident men, pink is the new white.
"Pink is just fly," said Kenny McAllister, who studies lifestyle trends at the New York-based marketing company AMPdi. "It's big everywhere. Especially on men."
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"The first guys that were wearing it were wearing it to say, 'I'm so confident in my masculinity, and I'm so hard and I'm so gangsta, I can wear pink,'" McAllister said, calling such risk-takers "fly guys."
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Still, some men are reluctant to drink, wear or venture near anything pink, no matter what research says.
"Pink is for sissies and girlie men," said Bill Shermer, operations officer for Blue Goose, a local trawler charter company. As he ate lunch yesterday in a Canton restaurant, clad in a dark blue company shirt, he declared: "Real men don't wear pink."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
No, pink-wearers are all just example of butch girlie men.
Pink - it's my new obsession Pink - it's not even a question, Pink - on the lips of your lover (oh) 'Cause Pink is the love you discover Pink - as the bing on your cherry Pink - 'cause you are so very Pink - it's the color of passion Ah, 'cause today it just goes with the fashion Pink - it was love at first sight Yeah, Pink - when I turn out the light And Pink gets me high as a kite And I think everything is going to be all right No matter what we do tonight You could be my flamingo 'Cause pink - it's the new kinda of lingo Pink - like a deco umbrella It's kink that you don't ever tell her Pink - it was love at first sight And Pink when I turn out the light Pink gets me high as a kite And I think everything is going to be all right No matter what we do tonight Yeah! I want to be your lover I, I wanna wrap you in rubber And it's pink as the sheets that we lay on 'Cause Pink - it's my favorite crayon Yeah! Pink - it was love at first sight Pink - when I turn out the light Pink - it's like red but not quite And I think, everything is going to be all right No matter what we do tonight
Remember the Chevrolet commercial in 1996 about Dale Earnhardt?
"But when (Dale) started, his first car was pink -- and he's never been over it."
"And the fact that I am currently having sex with this man, on camera, in no way reflects badly on my heterosexuality."
(chuckles)...Right is wrong, up is down, pink is white. Actually, maybe it is a pretty good metaphor for a liberal/conservative contrast.
LOL The first thing they head for is another man's fly.
To wit:
Both my daughters were wildly attracted to pink from birth. My son hated it.
Q.E.D.
Uh...you know what Steven Tyler was talking about when he made that song, do you? :-)
It wasn't bing cherries!
The tie is not pink; it's red with "JFK" and "04" on it; it just looks pink.
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Ok...this may not be very serious, but c'mon...Pink is now a "cool" color for guys?
Sorry, this is more of that sick, metrosexual, PC, foppish, "Millenuim-Man" bullshyte.
Unless it's a color that the military uses, men shouldn't be wearing it...end of story.
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http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=23455
Click on the LARGE picture and you can see the tie.
The world is at war and these goofs want to run the greatest country in the world and what are they doing, wearing pastels and daisies!!! Rush has been playing the Mighty Mouse Theme music for these pink boys today. Maybe someone will have some pictures soon, Pink Mice who look like Kerry and Edwards parading around with daisies in the hair singing about saving the day!
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