Pink is for girls, blue is for boys – Simple. As a native Dutch girl, coloured sprinkles called hagelslag (a popular sandwich topping) remain a traditional gift for mothers-to-be, where pink and white is given for a baby girl and blue and white for a baby boy. We all grow up with the stereotype, but as well as being challenged in the fashion world, a recent article in the Daily Mail revealed that this hasn’t always been the case.

As recently as the early 1900s, pink was seen by many as a colour that went better with boys, and blue as a colour that went better with girls. An American magazine, the Ladies Home Journal, reported that the “generally accepted rule” is pink for the boy and blue for the girl in an article dated back to 1918. Pink was closer to red and therefore more appropriate for boys because red is a “fierce” colour, whereas blue was associated with girls since the Virgin Mary has been customarily dressed in blue.

So you can rest assured that your boyfriend’s pink clothes are just as manly as his blue. The trends have ranged from subtle pink pastels to hot pink cardigans, sweaters and accessories. Here’s an example of 3 products we love and hope to see more men in soon. Vote for your favourite product (or, if I haven’t managed to convince you, vote against the pink movement altogether) in our poll below!