True or false?
In colonial America, parents dressed young boys and girls alike in white gowns.
True! At age 6, old enough to begin helping his father with chores, a boy officially left babyhood behind upon receiving his first set of breeches. Parents didn’t begin dressing their babies in gender-specific clothing until the 1940s.
Did you know?
Around World War I, Earnshaw’s Infant Department, a trade publication, designated blue for girls and pink for boys. The editors felt pink was a more masculine, stronger color, and delicate blue was more appropriate for girls. Parents, however, preferred blue for boys and pink for girls. Gender-specific pinks and blues didn’t take off, however, until the advent of sonograms in the mid-1980s.
Source: Smith
