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: