Is Pink the new Black?

We just sold a pink leather recliner to someone through Craigslist. She loves all things pink and just had to have it.

We only had the pink chair because we needed a chair many years ago, and a friend had the chair and needed some cash... in the days before Craigslist, we bought it from her. We would never have bought a pink chair otherwise!

We have a friend who came to visit last year, with her teenaged daughter. I did some laundry for them while they were out doing a tourist thing that I did not want to join them for. The clothes were separated into the pink pile... and the other pink pile. It was somewhat confusing.

In high school there were girls who only had black clothes... well, some black, but lots of grey clothes, darn that whole washing thing. I did not have lots of black clothes because I looked rather ghostly in them. As a matter of fact, the girls who did only have black clothes looked quite ghostly or gothic in them, but they liked that. Me, not so much.

So with all of the middle-aged pink addicts today, who only have pink clothes, do they look any better than the teenagers of my youth who only had black clothes? Not so much. You really need the right mixture of white, red, orange, and yellow to make a pink that compliments skin tone. And everyone's skin tone is different, so it is a very personal pink that can make someone look good. So no, many women look ill in the wrong pink, some look rather ghostly in the wrong pink.

I think the answer is yes, pink is the new black. Only a few women are lucky enough to get the right pink to make them look good, the same way only a few women look good in black. There are many more women wearing pink than look good in it, the same way there were many more teenagers wearing black than looked good in it back in my youth. But are they the same people? Hmmm, maybe.