hat_plays_sims: All I did was crop-- go read Bite Me by Dylan Meconis, you'll laugh. (Default)
Almighty Hat ([personal profile] hat_plays_sims) wrote 2013-01-14 10:44 pm (UTC)

I'm glad you like them! When I do a clothing set, I do all the colors. ... Well, okay, all the colors I can justify using. *grins* And since Medieval baby clothes were very likely to be made of cut-down adult clothes that weren't in good shape anymore (moths get at your wool dress? Save it and cut it down for hoods or baby or toddler or kids' clothes), the colors for baby clothes weren't as soft-and-cuddly as we're used to today, or as bleachably white as most Victorian baby clothes. Which isn't a bad thing, really, since newborns tend to see high contrast and bright colors better than soft muted pastels. Their eyes are still developing, which is why you see a lot of mobiles in red, black, and white.

And gendering colors is a fairly fluid concept-- as late as the 1940s, blue was considered a soft, feminine color, while pink was a more decisive, masculine shade.

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