they wanted their children to just look like “a baby” ― or “a sexless cherub” as dress historian Jo Paoletti writes in her fascinating book “Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the ...

My aunt desperately wanted a baby girl, but to her disappointment, she had a baby boy. She kept that kid in frilly dresses with ruffles ... The color blue was for women back then.

TALLAHASSEE -- An eighth-grade boy identifying as "gender-neutral" withdrew from Fairview Middle School on Tuesday after administrators said wearing a dress was ... had donned blue shirts on ...

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 ...