John Hattaway

I am one to make observations. If you know me you know that on occasion, not very frequently, for most people (that means just about everyone) I will never voice the majority of my observations or opinions about things. However, with that out of the way I feel that it is my duty and obligation to point out, for the whole world, an observation that has frustrated me for some time now. Simply put: Women, girls, ladies, dames, people with the XX chromosome set should not wear pink.

This does not mean that men should wear pink either. It means that most people go into a store, they look for the latest trends and fashions, they find the current popular shade of pink and they purchase it. There is no consideration for skin tones, shade, whether or not that color will actually look good on you, or if you should be one of the VERY few who can wear pink. Nope, none of that is even in the mix, in the bag, or in the mustard. Very few women who wear pink should.

Yes, this is a diatribe on those few who have the cahones to try pulling that little stunt off. This includes men. Imagine the level of personal self-assurance, or the level of personal depravity, one has to fall into as a man to want to wear pink. Sure, it can look good on you, but what are you trying to say? Either you are trying to say, “I don’t care,” or you are suggesting something else entirely. I would prefer you stick with the “I don’t care” and leave the other thing for politicians.

However, women who wear pink often purchase the color under the false assumption that they can pull it off. They cannot. Few people outside of models, who are told how to dress by professionals, can actually wear pink. And those few who do have people who coordinate what they wear against season, skin tone, and the other colors they are wearing. It works for them because it is designed to work for them and for no other reason.

Most people don’t have a person whose sole job it is to dress them. You can’t afford it. I can’t afford it. No one in their right mind is going to pay someone to stand around in the morning and pull out clothes for them – and if you can and do afford that then they had better be dressing you too. Because you don’t have a professional that is paid to tell you what shades of what work with you, wearing just anything doesn’t work. It looks bad. It looks tacky. It looks cheep. And pink doesn’t make you look younger, it just makes you look dumber.

Pink is one of those colors that really should be reserved for really little girls who still have the personal capacity to run out into the yard in their birthday suits after they just took a bath or because the clothes didn’t feel right against their skin. The color is reserved for little girls who think that little dresses, pigtails, and bows in their hair is cool, nice, quaint, attractive… in essence, it’s for the little girl who can pull it off because they are to cute naturally to have shades or styles be a factor in the decision process.

As people grow older they grow more self aware. The problem with the color pink is that many women don’t grow self-aware enough about what does and does not look good on them. If you can imagine your infant wearing it or your mother and grandmother wearing the clothing then it’s probably the wrong style, shade or color for you. The objective in style and fashion isn’t to mimic what the children or parents do but rather to have a look that distinctly sets you out within a certain age group and among your professional or non-professional pears. You are looking for something that allows people to see you for who you are not what you are wearing.

Pink doesn’t set you aside as a who you are. Pink shoes, skirts, shirts, tops, bras, pants, fingernail polish, pink bows, scrunchies, etc., they are all designed for use by really little girls who don’t need them anyway. They are not for use by the adults in the world who want to relive a lost childhood or think that appearance or attitude is latitude enough to get away with a color that should be reserved for the young.

The color doesn’t work for you no matter how much you want it to. STOP the madness. STOP wearing pink. You annoy me. The color makes you look juvenile and/or stupid and no one on this planet is going to take you seriously when you look as though you should be sucking on a lollipop, popping gum, have pink bows in your hair, and fulfilling some lecherous old mans fantasy. The color doesn’t work for you so don’t wear it. And if you are the lucky few who can wear pink, then wear it and flaunt it because, like red hair, there are a lot more people who want what you got and can’t have it. They make asses of themselves by trying.

Ciao

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