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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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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “How did pink become a girly color?”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: pink, color, Eisenhower, Mamie, cam. Deze video bevat 52 zinnen en 611 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:29. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 176 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 81% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| complexion zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəmˈplɛkʃən/ | teint, huidskleur |
| dainty bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈdeɪnti/ | delicaat |
| excite werkwoord | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | prikkelen, opwinden |
| fragrance zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɹeɪɡɹən(t)s/ | aroma |
| blush zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈblʌʃ/ | blozen |
| inauguration zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪˌnɑ.ɡjəˈɹeɪʃən/ | inhuldiging |
| caption zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkæp.ʃən/ | titel, hoofding |
| stud zelfstandig naamwoord | /stʌd/ | dekhengst, fokhengst |
| gown zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɡaʊ̯n/ | japon, kleed |
| foil zelfstandig naamwoord | /fɔɪl/ | folie |
| chop werkwoord | /t͡ʃɑp/ | hakken |
| arbitrary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɑː.bɪ.tɹə.ɹi/ | willekeurig, arbitrair |
| symbolic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | symbolisch | |
| fictional bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfɪkʃənəl/ | fictief |
| catalogue zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkæt.əˌlɔɡ/ | catalogus, cataloog |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 8 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals wasn't, didn't, haven't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: complexion /kəmˈplɛkʃən/, blush /ˈblʌʃ/, inauguration /ɪˌnɑ.ɡjəˈɹeɪʃən/, caption /ˈkæp.ʃən/, fictional /ˈfɪkʃənəl/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: inauguration /ɪˌnɑ.ɡjəˈɹeɪʃən/, arbitrary /ˈɑː.bɪ.tɹə.ɹi/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als complexion, dainty, excite.
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