When did pink and blue switch identities?

Apparently, in Medieval and Renaissance times, blue was associated with 
girls through being the colour for the Virgin Mary, and red was the colour 
symbolizing boys in representations of male energy from ancient times, 
connecting with blood, hunting and war.

In the late Victorian era, blue was the symbolic colour for boys and 
red/pink for girls.   An Irish visitor on a house tour said she knew all 
about that because she was Irish and the Irish knew all about the Fairies. 
Fairies, she said, did not like the colour blue.   Since they liked to steal 
babies, boy babies were protected by dressing them with something blue to 
keep the Fairies away.   The girls were left for the taking, being dressed 
with some other colour.

So, when, where and why did the cultural colour switch take place.


cp in colourful bc

>> my blue paper one said architect, surgeon; the pink version said interior 
>> designer, nurse.
> Mary,

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