Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Difference between revisions

* Because [[Disney]] dates to the early decades of the 20th century, the idea that blue represented calm, soothing, feminine attributes was still popular (with red/pink as the guy hero color). Due to this, many of Disney's early female characters from the first golden age are swathed in blue; [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]] would emerge slowly but surely much later on.

** [[Classic Disney Shorts|Minnie Mouse]] has been seen in many colors, but for most of her early color appearances, she was never seen in pink (pink colorations of old cartoons not counting). Merchandise and the comics would paint her whatever the heck they wanted; but blue was a color that she appeared in frequently. Best of all, the blue contrasted with Mickey's standard guy-hero red. The all-pink wouldn't emerge until the late Pluto cartoons, and the ever-famous red dress with white polka dots wouldn't come in until Disneyland was opened. In modern animated appearances, Minnie bounces back and forth the most between wearing soft blue to contrast Mickey, or bright red to match him. [[Token Girl|That doesn't stop marketing from dousing her home, her wardrobe, and her merchandise pink, of course]].

** The Blue Fairy from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' (and the only chick in the film, no less. Cleo doesn't count). This might be because in the original tale her name was the Fairy with Turquoise Hair. The blue becomes more noticeable, though, when contrasted with Pinocchio's red lederhosen ([[Artistic License|heeey, that's not Italian!]]).

** [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]] is debatable. Her dress is silver in the movie but blue in all follow-up merchandise in the Disney Princess line. The two dresses she wore as a child and her nightgown are blue.