Many people ask us how to turn their pink hydrangeas blue⁠—a lot more than those who ask how to turn a blue hydrangea pink. The South loves the blues, we guess. Changing the color of your hydrangeas ...

“It’s really a story of what happened to neutral clothing,” Jo B. Paoletti, the author of Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys From the Girls in America, told Smithsonian magazine in 2011.