National Pink Day 2023: Date, History, Facts about The Colour Pink

As is the case with a number of digital-age holidays, National Pink Day's precise origins and celebrations are lost to time. Pink has long been a symbol of femininity, grace, and chastity when paired with the colour white,

National Pink Day is annually observed on June 23. It is a day to commemorate the significance, history, and beauty of the delicate shade of red. Pink is most often associated with femininity, sensitivity, and tenderness, according to surveys in both the United States and Europe. The day honours all things pink, ranging from pink’s prominence in contemporary pop culture to historical facts about the color’s charm. In fact, as Elle Woods from “Legally Blonde” once remarked, “Whoever said orange is the new pink is seriously disturbed!”

The background of National Pink Day

As is the case with a number of digital-age holidays, National Pink Day’s precise origins and celebrations are lost to time. Pink has long been a symbol of femininity, grace, and chastity when paired with the colour white, whereas when paired with the colour black, it evokes voyeuristic desires.

In reverse chronological order, beginning with contemporary popular culture, pink has been used in a variety of contexts. Steven Tyler sings in the 1990s Aerosmith song “Pink”: “Pink on the lips of your lover / Because pink is the love you discover…” This exemplifies the sense of femininity and romance that the colour has come to symbolise. Believe it or not, in the past, pink was regarded a “stronger” colour than blue and was worn by infant boys. Before the 1940s, that was the norm.

Even earlier, in the 1700s, the word “pink” was first used to characterise pale red, derived from the class of flowers known as “the pinks.” Prior to that time, pink was merely a flower, and its usage referred to a flower in the sense of “His mother is the flower of dependability,” i.e. the paragon or the primary example. In fact, the character Mercutio in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” has a line in which he says, “Nay, I am the very pinck of curtesie,” implying that he is the gentlemanliest person you’re likely to encounter!

In the 1980s, when the browns and mustard-yellows of the 1970s eventually went out of style, it became common for men to own and wear a few pink dress shirts, a trend that has persisted to the present day. Perhaps pink business attire was initially intended as a sign of support for the then-emerging feminist movement.

In the interest of remaining current, let’s hear what Pink has to say about human nature. “True beauty consists of knowing who you are and what you want, and never apologising for it.” This is not only the genuine attitude of the American singer, but also of the colour pink itself.

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5 INCREDIBLE FACTS ABOUT THE COLOUR PINK

In the book “John Barleycorn” by Jack London, an alcoholic first hallucinated “pink elephants,” a phrase frequently used in 12-step groups today.

“Pinking shears” do not alter the colour of the garment they are used on; rather, they denote the embellishment of a hem with a zigzag pattern, a Middle English meaning of “to pink” (or pierce with holes).

The name of the famous trip-rock band Pink Floyd was created by their original lead vocalist, Syd Barrett, by combining the names of two old blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

In the MTV video for the 1997 Aerosmith song “Pink,” a fleeting scene depicting a woman’s bare breasts had to be removed.

The phrase “rosy-fingered dawn” first appeared in Homer’s “Odyssey” around 800 BCE, though the word “pink” didn’t exist at that time.