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== Advertising ==
* Huggies is a shining example of this trope. Go ahead, look 'em up on [[YouTube]], and link 'em back here.
* The second Snuggie commercial featured the generic grandfather, father, and son (and [[All Dogs Are Male|dog]]) with dark blue snuggies. The grandmother, mother and daughter had pink snuggies.
* Luvs once marketed pink and blue diapers for girls and boys respectively. The color-coding was more for the parents' convenience; the diapers' design differed between the ones for boys and the ones for girls: there was more absorbent material either in front (for boys) or beneath (for girls) depending on which one they were intended for. They don't do this any more, possibly for the ''manufacturer's'' convenience.▼
** Huggies Pullups and other absorbent training pants, on the other hand, continue to be colored in pink and blue, because toilet training tends to coincide with the time when children develop gender roles.▼
== Anime and Manga ==
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* Although he is associated with the color red because of his hat and shirt, [[Super Mario Bros|Mario]]'s outfit also includes blue overalls, and his love interest, Princess Peach, wears pink.
== Visual Art ==
* Two paintings -- ''[[wikipedia:Pinkie (Lawrence painting)|Pinkie]]'' by Thomas Lawrence and ''[[wikipedia:The Blue Boy|The Blue Boy]]'' by Thomas Gainsborough -- have long been grouped together. The pink girl and blue boy are displayed directly across the room from each other at the Huntington Museum in Southern California.
== Webcomics ==
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== Real Life ==
▲* Luvs once marketed pink and blue diapers for girls and boys respectively. The color-coding was more for the parents' convenience; the diapers' design differed between the ones for boys and the ones for girls: there was more absorbent material either in front (for boys) or beneath (for girls) depending on which one they were intended for. They don't do this any more, possibly for the ''manufacturer's'' convenience.
▲** Huggies Pullups and other absorbent training pants, on the other hand, continue to be colored in pink and blue, because toilet training tends to coincide with the time when children develop gender roles.
* Also in [[Real Life]] (and well before most other [[Real Life]] cited examples of this) comes the following from historian Tamara Plakins Thornton in a book on the history of handwriting instruction. Because eighteenth- and nineteenth-century etiquette recommended teaching different handwriting styles to people of different genders and social ranks (so that one could tell at a glance whether a letter came from a woman, from a member of the lower classes, or from someone actually important), at least one author of handwriting textbooks for the American upper/midle classes color-coded the books by gender. "In 1845[,] writing master James French issued two copybooks, a Gentlemen's Writing Book, bound in blue, and a Ladies ' Writing Book, bound in pink. In the former, French's male students practiced their mercantile running hand [a script style used by 18th- and 19th-century American and English businessmen] ... while their female counterparts rehearsed the ladies' epistolary [a more delicate and ornamented writing style, taught to women and girls of the era instead of the styles considered proper for males] ... " Source: Handwriting in America: A Cultural History by historian Tamara Plakins Thornton, 1998, p. 43. This early American example of [[Pink Girl Blue Boy]] (apparently the sole pre-20th-century example) makes the trope [[Older Than Television]].
* In the Netherlands, it's tradition for parents and older siblings to serve rusk topped with 'muisjes', little sugar-covered aniseed sprinkles, to visitors, colleagues, and classmates to celebrate a newborn. While initially only available in a pink/white mix, a blue/white mix became available in the early 90s and is now generally used when a boy is born. Since 1938, an orange/white mix has been created for a short period after a royal birth, and with the 'birth' of the new pope in 2005, some catholic institutions handed out rusks topped with yellow/white muisjes, though these were not widely sold in supermarkets, if at all.
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