Martine Zoer created Quirkie Kids because she believes the color pink should not be off limit to boys.
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I am the proud mother of two spirited boys with big imaginations. Being a mom has made me realize just how innocent children are. My boys have no idea that according to our society, certain things should be off limit to them including the color pink.
The idea that a color is either masculine or feminine is absurd to me. I created Quirkie Kids – a line of pink tees for girls AND boys – to encourage kids to embrace their uniqueness. Some boys like green. Some boys like blue. And some boys like pink and I say: why not?
To me, Quirkie Kids is about more than just pink t-shirts. It’s about giving both boys and girls more options to express themselves through their clothing. The tees feature playful designs of things not normally associated with the color pink. Think: “boy design on a girl shirt”.
I’ve had some people question my motives for doing a line of pink tees for girls AND boys. I am not saying that all boys should wear pink. I just think that boys should be allowed to wear pink if they want to. I know the tees are not for everyone, but I also know that some kids will really enjoy wearing them!
I am doing a Kickstarter campaign hoping to raise money to launch Quirkie Kids as a small business. Since Kickstarter is an all or nothing deal, I need your help. Unless the campaign gets fully funded, the project receives no money.
Please back my Kickstarter campaign and spread the word about this project that is very close to my heart.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/715281789/quirkie-kids-pink-tees-for-girls-and-boys
Thank you for helping me get these tees in the hands of some one-of-a-kind kids.
I find the notion that wearing pink as somehow un-masculine to be pretty laughable really. The ‘accepted’ pallette for menswear can be a bit too limited sometimes, especially for formal wear, so adding a splash of colour is frankly a good thing. I am proud to say that I own several pink shirts, sweaters and socks and I even own a few pairs of pink undies! I wear loads of other colours as well, it’s just that pink forms just as much a part of the spectrum of my wardrobe as any other colour. I have no problem with pink… Read more »
As a boy I always have a fondness with pink color and I use pink T-shirts.
In my country pink shirts (not T-shirts) are quite common for men to wear. But for some reason it seems to me that most men wearing them are immigrants from Muslim countries: Arabs and Turks. Now I wonder if it may be that in their culture that division girls=pink, boys≠pink does not exist so much as in mine. And I am seriously considering buying such a shirt myself, because they actually look quite good. 😀
It hasn’t always been this way with colors http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/?c=y&page=1 To quote from the article :- The march toward gender-specific clothes was neither linear nor rapid. Pink and blue arrived, along with other pastels, as colors for babies in the mid-19th century, yet the two colors were not promoted as gender signifiers until just before World War I—and even then, it took time for popular culture to sort things out. For example, a June 1918 article from the trade publication Earnshaw’s Infants’ Department said, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is… Read more »