This story is from August 27, 2007

What’s your colour quotient?

A recent study says men like wearing blue and women love pink. TOI finds out what people really want to wear
What’s your colour quotient?
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Shahid Kapur in the ‘masculine’ colour blue and Kareena Kapoor in the typical ‘girl’ colour pink (TOI Photo)Is pink meant for girls only?
You’ve grown up hearing that boys love blue and girls love pink. Well, now a study conducted in London reiterates it all over again.
But fashionistas and style icons countrywide insist that genders don’t follow colour codes at all.
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Fashion designer Manish Arora says, “Traditionally baby boys are made to wear blue and baby girls are made to wear pink. Grown-ups don’t really follow this rule.”
Model-turned-actor Deepal Shaw feels preferences have changed: “Men love to wear pink, a ‘metrosexual’ colour, while women readily wear ‘traditional’ men colours like black, white and grey. In fashion too, we experiment with colours. Of course, women think pink and its related colours look cute.”
Television anchor Karan Oberoi says he wears any colour that suits him. He adds, “Even Amitabh Bachchan wears pink!” Actor Divya Dutta says, “We’re conditioned to think like this since childhood but perceptions have changed. I do wear pink most of the time as it’s my favourite. But I wear other colours too.”
Psychiatrist Vinod Goyal informs, “Earlier man was the breadwinner of the family so blue, the colour of depth, came to be associated with him. Pink, a gentle colour, went well with the feminine temperament. But perceptions are now changing.”
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