Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
Actually, it hasn't even been 100 years, the color dynamic of, pink for boys, blue for girls, shiftered around the 1950s. And the reason for pink for boys is because, and most people forget this, pink is just a light red. And since red was/is viewed as a male color, a lighter red, ie pink, was used to represent young boys.
This is more of an urban legend built on poor research and has been shown to be largely untrue.

source: http://www.researchgate.net/publicat...c_Urban_Legend