Paoletti, the author of Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys From the Girls in America, told Smithsonian magazine in 2011. “What was once a matter of practicality—you dress your baby in white ...

blue is for boys” binary is foisted on children by society. In baby photos from the late 1800s, male and female tots wear frilly white dresses — so how did pink onesies with “Princess ...