I was looking through a magazine this morning I hadn't looked at for quite some time. American Home (1948) was very much an interior decorating magazine; from the features to the ads to the projects - All home.
I've always noticed how the pink, aqua and yellow thing seemed to run through entire magazines in the 50's and early 60's but I'd not noticed that this was true of other decades and color schemes, too.
In fact, after this morning I'm beginning to think this
combination was the precursor of pink, aqua and yellow.

In so many ads and features there was a similar color palette; red (geranium red, actually), yellow and a green or blue.

The styles of the rooms were different but the colors
were remarkably consistent.

Page after page... Ad after ad...

And not just ads, and not just kitchens.
Geranium, green, yellow....

The really interesting thing though is this ad.
Totally different. This ad for Cannon Towels was the
entire inside front cover and the only thing I saw advertised that was pink. And just look at the message - Don't be Grandma. (Basically.) Be new, be modern...Be... Well, pink. Right? That ad placement had to be the most expensive in the magazine and in full color, too - At a time when many ads were black and white or single color.
It's almost strange if you think about it. All the color palettes in the magazine are amazingly similar except this Cannon ad - even the green is a 'bit' different. Fresher maybe? Bluer... The red is more coral than red.... And the pink. Totally new. Don't be Grandma.
It's the first thing you would see when opening the magazine and even though everything you will see after it is entirely different (Read: old fashioned) you are reminded that you are a modern woman. Don't forget you're different. Pink. Pink. Pink....