This is Queen Street West, in the block behind the Queen Mother Cafe. What an interesting choice of colours for graffiti and wall murals. The coral-pink tones are very inviting. That is because the colour pink is the colour of universal love of oneself and of others. It represents friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace and approachability. It is the official colour for little girls, and it is the sweet side of the colour red.
The Barbie Doll displays this use of little girl pink in North American society. The doll came about when the Mattel co-founder's wife, Ruth Handler, saw her daughter Barbara giving her dolls adult roles. Ruth's initial suggestion of an adult doll was rejected by her husband and the Mattel board. However, she persisted and found an equivalent doll in Germany, which was used as the model for the American Barbie. Barbie was subsequently introduced in 1959 wearing a zebra-striped swimsuit then. It doesn't mention how the pink came about.
Over a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide in over 150 countries since then. Mattel claims that three Barbie dolls are sold every second.
