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Children's clothing
This is the information already present under the "Childrens clothing and gender" section. I have it listed as a reference, I would like to expand upon it:

(More recently gender-specific children's clothing has become a contentious issue. According to some feminist thinkers, children's clothing has become increasingly segregated, with young girls especially being expected to wear pink. Peggy Orenstein writes in her book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, that pink-coloured and princess-themed clothes are almost ubiquitous for young girls in shops in the United States. She sees this as problematic because it limits girls to not only one colour, but also to one spectrum of experience, and it "firmly fuses girls' identity to appearance."[5] According to Historian Jo B. Paoletti, pink and blue only became associated with girls and boys respectively from the 1940s onwards.[6][7]

My information:

The same connection can be drawn between boys and the potential for limitations associated with the color blue. Often times boys are marketed clothing and toys that are associated with their societal color scheme of various blues and greens, this is something that can observed in advertising as well as store fronts. With this push for a connection between blue and masculinity, there can be instances of gender backlash which refers to social penalties directed at people who violate gender norms. <(insert citation). Males who display behaviors associated with femininity can experience negative repercussions that bleed into other areas of their lives as well, '''studies have shown that males who engage in behaviors associated with women are perceived as possessing fewer desirable masculine traits (e.g., competence and assertiveness) and more undesirable feminine traits (e.g., weakness and uncertainty), resulting in various social penalties. This social reality serves to reinforce a status quo in which gender normative men retain the highest status''' <(insert citation) With this being said, it is clear that a limitation to a narrow range of colors for boys can effect ones perception of their ability to be "masculine" or "desirable" in the eyes of society.

I am struggling to find information that reaches outside of the scope of the US/UK. I would like to add another little blurb, about the potential for other color associations in clothing from non-western cultures and societies. At this time I have no additional data.