Pink to make the boys wink!

A somewhat girlie headline, but I am somewhat girlie. (Or, as my editor told me recently, "you write like Teen Vogue on crack". To which I say, pass me the pipe and renew my subscription!) I'm not entirely sure that pink does make the boys wink -- it might be that, like the thoroughly disproved 'boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses', it's a saying that evolved purely on the basis of rhyme.

Maybe if the word for wink was, I dunno, wurple, it'd be purple to make the boys wurple, and the entire pink/wink construct is actually just a cutesy phrase to make pink sound delicious and loveable and great and sell us lots of stuff we don't need. But that sounds like crazy commie paranoia or something. (Ooh, is it a coincidence that Communists are called pinkos? Um, yes, probably.) Anyway: I love pink! And purple, incidentally, which is another of this season's top colours. But this post is about pink: I can only hope it doesn't make everyone wink madly at their screens until their bosses make them take a leave of absence.

Even UK Vogue agrees, with a hot-pink themed cover, an entirely pink photoshoot, and lots of pink make-up to spookily convert Sophie Dahl into Debbie Harry in this month's issue:

The high fashion take on pink is to wear it head-to-toe. Which looks great on the glossy pages of a magazine, but not so much in real life (although you will cheer up your fellow commuters on the bus). A head-to-toe pink theme will probably leave you looking as if your sartorial heroines are one or any of the following:

L-R: Strawberry Shortcake; Kaylee from Firefly, Glinda the Good Witch of the North.

And whilst I agree with Strawberry Shortcake that life is delicious, especially if you're a good witch, not a bad witch, I have no desire to look like a marshmallow or a layer cake. I'm just kooky that way. Instead, a chicer way to add a rosy touch to your look this winter is with cosmetics and accessories. Just a touch of pink about your outfit gives a nod to the trend without making you look like a five-year-old. Here are Too Fat For Fashion's favourite pink pieces:

Clockwise from top left: Cherry print umbrella, £12 from Monsoon / Accessorise; Pink court shoe by Kurt Geiger, £85 from Asos; Sephora Piiink range starts at $2; Hard Candy Vintage Nail Polish, $7 at Sephora; Anna Lou initial necklace (other letters available), £18 from Asos; Pink hoop earrings, $2.99 from Urban Outfitters; Frederic Malle Lipstick Rose scent, from €90, from Editions de Parfums; Benefit Powder Pop (including my eternal favourite blusher, Dandelion), $30, and 10, $28, both from Benefit; Scarlett's Deluxe Palette, $34 from Stila; Raspberry beret, £12 from Topshop.