쉐도잉 연습: How did pink become a girly color? - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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In 1927, Time magazine took a survey of all the major department stores across the country.
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They wanted to know which colors they associated with girls in their clothing lines.
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The answers came back pretty mixed.
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There's also a catalog in 1918 that suggests that little girls should all wear blue because it's a delicate and dainty color.
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That's Jennifer Wright.
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She's an author and often writes about history and fashion for Rakt.
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It was only after the war that pink got the symbolic association that we have today.
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In 1953, Dwight Eisenhower, the general who won World War II, becomes president.
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And this actually turns out to be a pretty important moment in the history of pink.
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It was Ike's inauguration and Mamie Eisenhower came out in this enormous rhinestone -studded pink ball gown,
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the legs of which you never would have seen during the war when women were wearing much simpler styles.
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Mamie Eisenhower loved the color pink and she was known for it.
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She thought that the pink really brought out her complexion.
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She had really pretty blue eyes.
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It was a nice contrast.
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In fact, a quick search of newspaper headlines mentioning Mamie Eisenhower also referenced the color pink pretty frequently.
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And it wasn't just called pink, it was called Mamie Pink.
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She went around giving quotes like, Ike runs the country, I turn the pork chops.
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But yeah, it was a very arbitrary decision that she just loved pink and everybody else decided, okay, this is the color that ladylike women wear.
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There's a great song in Funny Face called Think Pink.
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Here is our theme, here is our answer, PINK!
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Where the lady editor of a magazine who is very much based off of Diana Freeland
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sings about how women in America today have got to think pink.
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Pink Pink!
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Forget that!
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And there's a great line in it where she says, Banish the black, burn the blue!
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Which are two colors that women would have been seeing a lot of during the war years.
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Around this time, pink became a popular color not only in just women's clothing, but also in the home.
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Pink as a bridal blush.
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New camé.
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Loving pink camé with an exciting new fragrance.
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Sealed in pink pearl foil.
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New loving pink camé.
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This was something a lot of women liked, by the way, it wasn't seen as a terribly oppressive thing,
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but there were definitely women like Diana Freeland who didn't really want to revert to those traditional roles.
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I haven't seen a woman in two beats in anything but pink!
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What about you?
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Me?
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I wouldn't be caught dead.
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It was at this point where you start to see the color pink representing women real
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and fictional who were anything but traditional.
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The champion race car driver Donna Mae Mims is a really good example of this.
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She had a pink uniform and a pink helmet and a pink race car.
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There's the pink ladies in Greece and the plastics in Mean Girls.
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The girls who are incredibly canny and kind of terrifying rightly explain.
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On Wednesdays we wear pink.
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There's a great cover of Hillary Clinton on the cover of People magazine wearing a bright pink jacket
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and the caption next to it is how we need to break the highest, hardest glass ceiling as women.
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So she's pretty much doing the opposite of what Mamie Eisenhower wanted to do.
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This isn't just about the color pink.
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It's about how it's used to define a person's personality and what we think they're capable of.
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She still wants to show people that really I'm just just a girl just like you.

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문맥 속 문법과 표현

  • "It was only after the war that...": 강조 구문으로 특정 시점의 중요성을 강조할 때 사용합니다. 예: "It was only after practice that I could speak fluently." (연습한 후에야 유창하게 말할 수 있었어요.)
  • "the likes of which you never would've seen...": "~와 같은 것"이라는 뜻으로, 특별하거나 예외적인 사례를 소개할 때 유용합니다. 비디오에서는 전쟁 당시와 달리 화려한 드레스를 강조하기 위해 사용되었어요.
  • "She thought that the pink really brought out her complexion.": "bring out"은 "강조하다, 돋보이게 하다"는 뜻으로, 외모나 특성을 강조할 때 자주 사용됩니다. 예: "This color brings out your eyes." (이 색이 당신 눈을 돋보이게 해요.)

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