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Paoletti, Jo B.

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Synopsis

"When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue?" To uncover the answer, dress historian Jo Paoletti looked at advertising, catalogs, dolls, baby books, mommy blogs and discussion forums, and other popular media to examine the surprising shifts in attitudes toward color as a mark of gender in American children's clothing. She chronicles the decline of the white dress for both boys and girls, the introduction of rompers in the early 20th century, the gendering of pink and blue, the resurgence of unisex fashions, and the origins of today's highly gender-specific baby and toddler clothing.

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Jo B. Paoletti is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland.

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ISBN 10:  0253009855 ISBN 13:  9780253009852
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2013
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