Soft, pretty and perfect for right now – it’s time to rose-tint your wardrobe
I like pink. I also like that I’m now allowed to say this out loud, and to wear pink clothes without getting side-eye. It used to be that wearing pink was like slipping into baby-talk. It had a whiff of a refusal to grow up about it, not as bad as keeping teddy bears in your bed, but not a million miles off, either. But pink is cool now. Blush is the colour of urban hotel lobbies rather than nurseries, and pink clothes are everywhere. All the time. We have moved past the point of pink being hot for a particular season. Like blue jeans, pink is a modern staple, for men as well as women.
But, still, it will never be edgy. It is a people-pleasing kind of colour, rather than a challenging one. Pink tends to suit people. Pink is nice. Which makes it ideal for right now. We have all been challenged plenty over the past year and a bit. Life has been edgy and weird for ages. Do you know what feels fun and new and unexpected and fresh now? Having a nice time. Smiling. I’m so over having to be resilient. I feel as if I’ve been in brace position for as long as I can remember. So, yes, pink is soft and easy-going and rose-tinted, and probably, if we’re being honest, will never be quite as chic as a really excellent French navy, but this summer, that’s absolutely fine by me.
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