{"id":4583,"date":"2008-12-21T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2010-12-02T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T10:24:22","slug":"men-in-pink-two-velasquez-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/21\/men-in-pink-two-velasquez-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Men in Pink: Two Velasquez Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment a while back, Elena pointed out that Diego Vel\u00e1zquez&#8217;s painting &#8220;Infante Felipe Pr\u00f3spero&#8221; (from 1659) provides a good example of how pink was acceptable for males to wear&#8230;as were, in some cases, dresses, which the young prince is wearing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/w041.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4584 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/w041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elena says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;until the late 1700s little boys would wear dresses or petticoats for as long as they could until they could dress as miniature adults&#8230;This was mainly for ease of bodily functions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, today most parents would be appalled at the idea of dressing toddler boys in dresses&#8211;dresses with frills and ribbons, at that.<\/p>\n<p>The painting &#8220;Pope Innocent X,&#8221; also by Vel\u00e1zquez (1650) shows the Pope in light pink clothing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/w003.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4585 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/w003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both images found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/exhibitions\/velazquez\/slideshow\/default.htm\">National Gallery&#8217;s Vel\u00e1zquez<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>You might also check out Kent State University Museum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dept.kent.edu\/museum\/exhibit\/kids\/kids.html\">Centuries of Childhood<\/a> exhibit for examples of how children&#8217;s clothing has changed over time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the tip, Elena!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment a while back, Elena pointed out that Diego Vel\u00e1zquez&#8217;s painting &#8220;Infante Felipe Pr\u00f3spero&#8221; (from 1659) provides a good example of how pink was acceptable for males to wear&#8230;as were, in some cases, dresses, which the young prince is wearing: Elena says, &#8230;until the late 1700s little boys would wear dresses or petticoats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,373,55,2099,2102,253,293],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-color","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-history","tag-history","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30216,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/30216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}