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For many modern cultures, the color pink has become the color meaning femininity, in all its forms. This means that the more graceful and elegant a woman is, wearing pink is very likely to be paired with this in fiction. It's also why it's thought girls appreciate pink things more than other colors. This is actually Newer Than They Think. Since pink is a tone of red, and as red is the color of blood, pink was a masculine color some time ago (blue was actually seen as feminine), and still is in some parts of the world. A Sub-Trope of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics. A Super-Trope to:

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  • For many modern cultures, the color pink has become the color meaning femininity, in all its forms. This means that the more graceful and elegant a woman is, wearing pink is very likely to be paired with this in fiction. It's also why it's thought girls appreciate pink things more than other colors. This is actually Newer Than They Think. Since pink is a tone of red, and as red is the color of blood, pink was a masculine color some time ago (blue was actually seen as feminine), and still is in some parts of the world. A Sub-Trope of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics. A Super-Trope to:
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  • For many modern cultures, the color pink has become the color meaning femininity, in all its forms. This means that the more graceful and elegant a woman is, wearing pink is very likely to be paired with this in fiction. It's also why it's thought girls appreciate pink things more than other colors. The form of the pink is best done with elegant clothing, and even if the lady surrounds herself with pink (like the walls on her bedroom and the furniture), but even something "manly" being colored pink would count for this trope. Heck, even a dress that's not normally pink, like a Fairytale Wedding Dress, could be either colored pink (for being non-traditional, but still feminine), or have pink trimmings (usually in the form of a bouquet with pink flowers). This is actually Newer Than They Think. Since pink is a tone of red, and as red is the color of blood, pink was a masculine color some time ago (blue was actually seen as feminine), and still is in some parts of the world. And these days, it's controversial, as a way to insist women have to be feminine. A Tomboy will refuse to wear pink. On the other hand, this trope is why Real Men Wear Pink is named so, despite not requiring that color. By the way, this can include any shade of pink, even those that cross with other colors (like fuchsia, a purple and pink color). A Sub-Trope of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics. A Super-Trope to: * Pink Girl, Blue Boy (a boy and girl explicitly wear their respective colors) * Pink Is for Sissies (mocking a guy for wearing pink) * Pink Product Ploy * Princesses Prefer Pink * Rose-Haired Girl A Sister Trope to Graceful Ladies Like Purple (and can overlap with colors like fuchsia), True-Blue Femininity. Compare Long Hair Is Feminine, Woman in White, Lady in Red, Girls Love Stuffed Animals, Hair Decorations, All Girls Like Ponies, Pimped-Out Dress, Princess Phase. Examples (not covered in the sub tropes):
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